bull-rout

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n. a fish of New South Wales, Centropogon robustus, Guenth., family Scorpaenidae.


1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 48:

«It emits a loud and harsh grunting noise when it iscaught. . . . The fisherman knows what he has got by the noisebefore he brings his fish to the surface. . . . When out of thewater the noise of the bull-rout is loudest, and it spreads itsgills and fins a little, so as to appear very formidable. . . .The blacks held it in great dread, and the name of bull-routmay possibly be a corruption of some native word.»

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