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What is a muttonfish?

What is a muttonfish? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chiefly US) Any of several Atlantic and Caribbean fishes which are said to taste of mutton, especially the mutton snapper, Lutjanus analis, the ocean pout, Macrozoarces americanus, or the Irish pompano, Diapterus auratus. [from 18th c.]
  2. (Australia) Any of several edible molluscs of the genus Haliotis; an abalone. [from 19th c.]
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What highly-prized shellfish are known as ormers in Jersey and muttonfish in Australia?
The different shells they used were muttonfish, starries, beachies, buttonies, courie, pearl, fan conk, small cockle and small pippies.
Some mornings when the tide was right out we went onto the reef with screwdrivers to prise off abalone, which we called muttonfish.

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