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mulloway

mulloway

9.9
A large Australian sea fish that people eat and people who fish prize
  • noun
  • Australian
: mulloway
  • During the fishing trip, we caught a large mulloway off the coast of Australia.

Examples

  • The chef prepared a delicious dish of mulloway with lemon and herbs.

  • My favorite restaurant serves grilled mulloway that melts in your mouth.

  • Striped bass, mulloway, salmon (chinook, coho, sockeye, Atlantic, Australian) Global Aquaculture Alliance, United States.

    Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

mulloway singular
mulloways plural

Etymology

Mulloway comes from an Australian Aboriginal name for this coastal fish that English speakers began to use in Australia. So today mulloway means that large, valued food fish you find around Australian coasts.