roncador
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English
Etymology
From Spanish roncador (“a snorer”), from roncar (“to snore”). So called in allusion to the grunting noise made by them on being taken from the water.
Noun
roncador (plural roncadors)
- (zoology) Any of several species of Californian sciaenoid food fishes, especially Roncador stearnsi (spotfin croaker) and others in the Sciaenidae family.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “roncador”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
roncador (feminine roncadora, masculine plural roncadors, feminine plural roncadores)
Noun
roncador m (plural roncadors, feminine roncadora)
- snorer
- bastard grunt (Pomadasys incisus)
- Synonym: xerla roncadora
Further reading
- “roncador” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Noun
roncador m (plural roncadores)
Further reading
- “roncador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10