Also calipeever, 2 -piver. callipiver. A fish: a mullet of the West Indies, Mugil liza, much esteemed as a delicacy.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle (1862), 239. Cold calipiver—our Jamaica Salmon. Ibid. (1859), 395. That calipeever so crisp in the boiling.
1866. Morn. Star, 17 March. Such delicacies as the callipiver and turtle steaks.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 170. The Calipeva or Jamaica Salmon.
