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rob⋅a⋅lo

[rob-uh-loh, roh-buh-, roh-bah-loh]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -lo, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -los.
snook 2 (def. 1).

Origin:
1885–90; < Pg
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ro·ba·lo   (rō-bä'lō)   
n.   pl. ro·ba·los or robalo
Any of various chiefly tropical marine food fishes of the family Centropomidae, such as the snook.

[Spanish róbalo, haddock, probably alteration of Catalan llobarro, from lobo, wolf, from Latin lupus; see lobo.]
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