sergeant baker

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

n.


name given to a fish of NewSouth Wales, Aulopus purpurissatus, Richards., family Scopelidae.

1882. Rev. J E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 82:

«The Sergeant Baker in all probability got its localappellation in the early history of the colony (New SouthWales), as it was called after a sergeant of that name in oneof the first detachments of a regiment; so were also two fruitsof the Geebong tribe ( Persoonia); one was called MajorBuller, and the other Major Groce, and this latter againfurther corrupted into Major Grocer.»

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

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