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sooty grunter

sooty grunter noun: a freshwater fish of species Hephaestus fuliginosus, of coastal northern Australia.

Noun

sooty grunter (plural sooty grunters)

  1. A freshwater fish of species Hephaestus fuliginosus, of coastal northern Australia.
    • The other fish Will expected could be hooked, perhaps, a few reasonable-sized freshwater sooty grunter, rifle fish or bream, if the boat was in the main water arteries coming up to the coast from the spring-fed river systems.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169

Forms of sooty grunter

pluralsooty grunters

Questions about sooty grunter

What does sooty grunter mean?
Sooty grunter means a freshwater fish of species Hephaestus fuliginosus, of coastal northern Australia.
What part of speech is sooty grunter?
Sooty grunter is a noun.
What is the plural of sooty grunter?
The plural of sooty grunter is sooty grunters.

Words near sooty grunter in the dictionary

  1. sooty albatross
  2. sooty albatrosses
  3. sooty bark disease
  4. sooty blotch and flyspeck
  5. sooty grouse
  6. sooty grunter
  7. sooty grunters
  8. sooty kangaroo
  9. sooty mangabey
  10. sooty orange tip
  11. sooty orange tips

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