stranger

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

name given in Victoria andTasmania to the Rock-Whiting, Odax richardsoni,Gunth., family Labridae. The Stranger, which isa marine fish, is caught occasionally in the fresher water ofthe upper estuary of the Derwent; hence its name.See Whiting.

1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), June 19, 1881, p. 1:

«Common fish such as . . . garfish, strangers, silvers, andothers.'

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