bony bream

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bony bream

  1. (Australia) A freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi, of mainland Australia; the pyberry. [from 19th c.]
    • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 75:
      Steadman told me that the fish in the photograph is birrngi, a type of bony bream that has now been lost.