A large Australian sea fish with silvery scales, related to the snapper family and valued as food.
From Australian Aboriginal languages, possibly from Dharuk or other coastal Australian language groups. The word entered English through early colonial contact with Indigenous Australians who named the fish.
The dargo is a perfect example of how colonists adopted Indigenous names for unfamiliar animals—it shows up in early Australian records from the 1800s as settlers tried to catalog the unique fish of their new homeland.
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