Rosefish \Rose"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large marine scorp[ae]noid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

Note: When full grown it is usually bright rose-red or orange-red; the young are usually mottled with red and ducky brown.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Snapper \Snap"per\, n.

1. (Teleg.) A device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.

2. A string bean. [Colloq., U. S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Snapper \Snap"per\, n.

1. One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.

Note: The red snapper (Lutjanus aya, or Blackfordi) and the gray, or mangrove, snapper (L. griseus) are large and abundant species. The name is loosely applied to various other fishes, as the bluefish, the rosefish, the red grouper, etc. See Rosefish.

3. (Zo["o]l.) A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.

4. (Zo["o]l.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

5. (Zo["o]l.) A snap beetle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)