barracouta, snoek
(noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barracouta (plural barracoutas)
(Australia) The snoek, Thyrsites atun, a foodfish.
The fish is only distantly related to the barracuda.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar`ra*cu"da, Bar`ra*cou"ta, n.
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.
Note: That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is Sphyræna spet (or S. vulgaris); a southern species is S. picuda; the Californian is S. argentea.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb
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