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Snoek

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Noun
  1. 1
    An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted. South-Africa

    "2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348, Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast"

  2. 2
    a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa wordnet
  3. 3
    The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus. South-Africa
  4. 4
    Any of several species of barracuda. South-Africa

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun.

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