mutton-fish
/ˈmʌtnfɪʃ/noun
1Chiefly US. Any of various marine fishes of the Caribbean and western Atlantic whose flesh when cooked is supposed to taste of mutton; especially (a) the mutton snapper, Lutjanus analis; (b) the ocean pout, Macrozoarces americanus; (c) the Irish pompano, Diapterus auratus.
2 Australian. Any of various edible gastropod molluscs of the genus Haliotis; an abalone; especially the large H. ruber, common in southern and eastern Australia.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. From mutton + fish.
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