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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

snapper
     n 1: (football) the person who plays center on the line of
          scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the
          center fumbled the handoff" [syn: center]
     2: flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
     3: a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing
        candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
        [syn: cracker, cracker bonbon]
     4: Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
        [syn: Chrysophrys auratus]
     5: any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport
        fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal
        waters
     6: large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or
        near water; prone to bite [syn: common snapping turtle,
        Chelydra serpentina]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.
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.]
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.