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barramundi|ˌbærəˈmʌndɪ|
Also burramundi, -munda.
[Aboriginal.]
The native name in Australia for any of various freshwater fish (see quots. 1880, 1898).
1873Trollope Australia I. xi. 189 There is a fish too at Rockhampton called the Burra Mundi,—I hope I spell the name rightly,—which is very commendable. 1880Günther Stud. Fishes 357 Two species, C[eratodus] forsteri and C. miolepis, are known from fresh waters of Queensland... The aborigines [call it] ‘Barramunda’, a name which they appear to apply also to other large-scaled freshwater fishes, as the Osteoglossum leichardti. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 67/2 Burramundi or Barramunda..is also incorrectly applied by the colonists to the large tidal perch of the Fitzroy River, Queensland, Lates calcarifer, Günth., a widely distributed fish in the East Indies. 1909Webster, Barramundi. 1930E. R. B. Gribble Forty Yrs. with Aborigines xvi. 165 John left at once,..returning in the evening with a fine barramundi. 1938Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Dec. 21/2 The waters teem with barramundi (king of Australian fishes). |