4 definitions found for robalo

robalo n 1: a kind of percoid fish

Sea pike Sea" pike` (Zo["o]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo. (c) The merluce.

Robalo Rob"a*lo, n. [Sp. r['o]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[ae], esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called

Snook Snook, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish.