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‖ tarwhine|ˈtɑːhwaɪn| Also tarwine. [? Native name.] An Australian fish, Chrysophrys sarba, used for food.
1880Inglis Austral. Cousins 298 In the brackish waters near Lake Macquarie, are most plentiful supplies of black bream, tarwine, flathead, whiting, river gar-fish and others. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes N.S. Wales 12 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) The black bream (Chrysophrys australis) and the tarwhine (Ch. hasta) are both valuable food-fish,..they attain a weight of 4 to 5 lbs. |