mulloway
English
editEtymology
editProbably from Ngarrindjeri malowe.
Noun
editmulloway (plural mulloways)
- Any of the species Argyrosomus japonicus of large fish, found along the eastern coast of Africa and the coasts of Australia, prized for sport.
- Synonyms: Japanese meagre, southern meagre
- 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2012, page 79:
- I clawed my way up a long, evil hissing slope and saw the light on the lonely beach and my father with a mulloway slung across his back like an aura […].
- 2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing:
- To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...
References
edit- mulloway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Argyrosomus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Argyrosomus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Search for mulloway at FishBase
- “mulloway”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.