snook : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: snook	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for snook
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snook n large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r[a2]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[91], esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis}), a valuable food fish called also {snook}, the smaller species being called
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snook \Snook\ (sn[oomac]k), v. i. [Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. sn[94]ggen, snuckern, sn[94]kern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for.] To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]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.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Snook, TX (city, FIPS 68576) Location: 30.49055 N, 96.46573 W Population (1990): 489 (216 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)