mulloway

English

A mulloway

Etymology

Probably from Ngarrindjeri malowe.

Noun

mulloway (plural mulloways)

1. 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

• mulloway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argyrosomus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Argyrosomus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Search for mulloway at FishBase
• “mulloway”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.