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Webster 1913 Edition
Barracoon
Bar′ra-coonˊ
,Noun.
[Sp. or Pg.
barraca
. See Barrack
.] A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
Du Chaillu.
☞ That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is
Sphyræna spet
(or Sphyræna vulgaris
); a southern species is Sphyræna picuda
; the Californian is Sphyræna argentea
. 2.
(Zool.)
A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (
Thyrsites atun
).