blackfish, noun

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EnglishShow more Transferred use of English black fish a name given to several varieties of fish; see quotation 1984.
In KwaZulu-Natal (and formerly in the Eastern Cape):
1. The galjoen (sense 1), Coracinus capensis.
1905 H.E.B. Brooking in E. London Dispatch 8 Apr. 3Shaped much like the black-fish or galjeon.
1984 Cape Times 13 Jan. (Funfinder) 12Facts about galjoen are:..Those taken near rocks are almost black (also known in Natal as blackfish or black bream).
2. ?obsolete. The marine cavebass, Dinoperca petersi of the Dinopercidae.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 61Black-fish,..In Natal the name is applied to Dinoperea queketti.
1947 K.H. Barnard Pict. Guide to S. Afr. Fishes 106Quekett’s Blackfish, (Dinoperca queketti)...A well-known Natal fish remarkable for the high, square-cut soft dorsal fin.
1949 J.L.B. Smith Sea Fishes of Sn Afr. 199Dinoperca Petersii...Lantern Fish. Butterbream (Pondoland). Butterfish. Blackfish.
The galjoen (sense 1), Coracinus capensis.
The marine cavebass, Dinoperca petersi of the Dinopercidae.
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