warsaw

CEFRB1

/ˈwɔːsɔː/

noun

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noun
The capital city of Poland.
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noun
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A city, the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.

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The capital of Poland is Warsaw.
BLACK GROUPER Mycteroperca bonaci […] They rank as fair food fish. Fishermen give them a variety of names: Warsaw grouper, gray grouper, jewfish, rockfish.
In the Gulf of Mexico handlines are also an important gear for the offshore subtropical bank fishes, accounting for 12,847,000 pounds of various snappers, 6,928,000 pounds of groupers, and 538,000 pounds of jewfish, warsaw, and grunts.

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BLACK GROUPER Mycteroperca bonaci […] They rank as fair food fish. Fishermen give them a variety of names: Warsaw grouper, gray grouper, jewfish, rockfish.
1965, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Leonard J Grant, Leonard Peter Schultz, Wondrous World of Fishes, page 118
In the Gulf of Mexico handlines are also an important gear for the offshore subtropical bank fishes, accounting for 12,847,000 pounds of various snappers, 6,928,000 pounds of groupers, and 538,000 pounds of jewfish, warsaw, and grunts.
1975, George A. Rounsefell, Ecology, Utilization, and Management of Marine Fisheries, page 144
Plate 165. THE JEW-FISH OR “WARSAW.” Promicrops guasa, Pooey. (P. 412)
[1884, G. Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, page 365
Although the red grouper is indeed a large fish compared to most, often weighing forty pounds, it is almost a pigmy compared with a related fish of this family, the jew-fish, guasa, or Warsaw (Promicrops itaira). This fish is yellowish or olivaceous, sprinkled with numerous brown spots.
1888, J.S. [John Sterling] Kingsley, The Riverside Natural History, page 224
In the Atlantic (south) we have an allied form, the gansa or warsaw (Promicrops itaira), that attains a weight of over six hundred pounds.
1889 October 26, C.F. Holder, “The hard-scaled bass of the Pacific”, in Scientific American, page 265

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Old Polish *warszewa wieśellip. Old Polish Warszewa Polish Warszawabor. English Warsaw Ultimately from Old Polish Warszewa. Doublet of Warszawa.