Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In New South Wales, a fish, Beryx affinis, common in Australian waters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
fish found aroundAustralia , of the families Lutjanidae, Berycidae, and Glaucosomatidae.
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Examples
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A fish called nannygai was renamed redfish, and this name has proved popular enough to improve its sales, but a green tiger prawn was renamed grooved tiger prawn because green suggested an uncooked prawn.
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We had some sensational reef fishing for three days catching heaps of red emperor, coral trout, nannygai, spanish mackerel and heaps more.
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We had some sensational reef fishing for three days catching heaps of red emperor, coral trout, nannygai, spanish mackerel and heaps more.
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We had some sensational reef fishing for three days catching heaps of red emperor, coral trout, nannygai, spanish mackerel and heaps more.
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Boaties have also done well on pinkies in close, along with good nannygai.
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Boaties have also done well on pinkies in close, along with good nannygai.
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Similarly Australian fishermen found that redfish sold better than nannygai though the difference is entirely linguistic.
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