Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish, Pagrus unicolor, abundant in all Australasian waters and similar to the red porgy of the Mediterranean, and the red tai of Japan.
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- noun an
Australasian fish , Chrysophrys guttulatus; theporgy orsnapper
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Examples
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Moreover, schnapper and other prime fish are often sold there as low as 4d. per lb., a price at which no one can complain.
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Then, when maybe they have caught schnapper, red bream and parrot-fish, they drift among the turtle, and the sport begins.
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Moreover, schnapper and other prime fish are often sold there as low as 4d. per lb., a price at which no one can complain.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Then, when maybe they have caught schnapper, red bream and parrot-fish, they drift among the turtle, and the sport begins.
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Up they came, two at a time, dozens and dozens of them kauwhai, cavalle, yellow-tail, schnapper -- lovely fish of delicious flavour and goodly size.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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In the maw there were, besides a large quantity of dismembered squid of great size, a number of fish, such as rock-cod, barracouta, schnapper, and the like, whose presence there was
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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The schnapper, the best of all Australian fish, is too well known to here enter into a detailed description.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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What a beautiful fish is a ten-pound schnapper -- a brilliant pink back, sides and tail, dotted over with tiny spots of a wonderful, gleaming blue that sparkle like miniature diamonds; the bream-shaped head a deep reddish-purple, with nose and lips of palish pink; the belly a pure, shining white.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, spoke of the schnapper as 'an exceedingly beautiful and palatable fish.'
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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Our new ground proved a lucky one, for we not only caught some seventy schnapper -- some of them truly noble fish -- but two magnificent black and white rock cod, a fish whose flavour is excelled by no other in
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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