robalo

(rä′bə lō′, rō′bə-)

noun pl. robalos or robalo

Origin: Sp róbalo or Port robalo < Catalan llobarro; ult. < L lupus, wolf, also a kind of fish: see wolf

See robalo in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. ro·ba·los or robalo

Any of various chiefly tropical marine food fishes of the family Centropomidae, such as the snook.

Origin:

Origin: Spanish róbalo, haddock

Origin: , probably alteration of Catalan llobarro

Origin: , from lobo, wolf

Origin: , from Latin lupus; see lobo

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