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Fortescue, fortescue Austral.|ˈfɔːtɪskjuː|
[perh. alteration of the pop. name forty skewer after the proper name Fortescue.]
A scorpænid fish, Centropogon australis.
1874E. S. Hill in J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish N.S.W. (1882) 49 The scorpion or Fortescue..bear that name no doubt in memory of the pain they have hitherto inflicted; and for its number and array of prickles it enjoys in this country the alias ‘Forty skewer’ or ‘Fortescure’. 1882J. E. Tenison-Woods Ibid., The ‘Fortescue’..is a common fish in Port Jackson, with a very long dagger-shaped preorbital spine. 1896F. G. Aflalo Nat. Hist. Austral. 228 Fortescue (Pentaroge)..is a terrible pest, lurking among the débris in the nets and all but invisible. 1951T. C. Roughley Fish Austral. 129 Most fishermen on the eastern Australian coast are familiar with..the fortesque (Centropogon australis). 1968G. P. Whitley et al. Animals of World: Austral. 21/2 Several related fishes such as the..Fortescue (Centropogon australis) are less severe in their toxic effects. |