grunt

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: grunt

1	v n	issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
2	n	an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
3	n	medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: grunt

“He grunted his reluctant approval”

Type of:: emit, let loose, let out, utter
express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

Type of:: noise
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

“infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts”

“he went from grunt to chairman in six years”

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; Haemulon album, margate
a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil; Haemulon macrostomum, Spanish grunt
a kind of grunt; Haemulon aurolineatum, tomtate
found off the West Indies and Florida; Haemulon malanurum, cottonwick
of warm Atlantic waters; Haemulon parra, sailor's-choice, sailors choice
a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico; Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfish
black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil; Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompon
dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward; Orthopristis chrysopterus, hogfish, pigfish
found from Long Island southward

Type of:: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

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