bony bream
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Noun
[edit]- (Australia) A freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi, of mainland Australia; the pyberry. [from 19th c.]
- 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 75:
- Steadman told me that the fish in the photograph is birrngi, a type of bony bream that has now been lost.