callop
/ˈkaləp
/noun
A deep-bodied edible gold and green freshwater fish found in Australia. Also called golden perch.
- Plectroplites ambiguus, family Serranidae.
- Fishery assessment reports for callop, mullet and mulloway will be finalised in 2003.
- In the absence of written documentation, these farmers may be unable to demonstrate that they have inherited the right to farm a given number of callops.
Origin
1920s: perhaps from an Aboriginal language of southern Australia.
Rhymes
- hydraulic fracturing
- hydraulicity
- hydraulic ram
- hydraulics
- hydrazine
- hydria
- hydric
- hydride
- hydriodic acid
- hydro
- hydro-
- hydrobromic acid
- hydrocarbon
- hydrocele
- hydrocephalic
- hydrocephalus
- hydrocephaly
- hydrochloric acid
- hydrochloride
- hydrochlorofluorocarbon
- hydrocolloid
- hydrocortisone
- hydroculture
- hydrocyanic acid
- hydrodynamic