1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 56:
"Native elderberry. The fruit of these two native elders is fleshy and sweetish, and is used by the aborigines for food."
<hw>Elephant-fish</hw>, <i>n.</i> a fish of New Zealand, South Australian, and Tasmanian waters, <i>Callorhynchus antarcticus</i>, Lacep., family <i>Chimaeridae</i>. "It has a cartilaginous prominence of the snout, ending in a cutaneous flap" (Gunth.), suggesting a comparison with an elephant's trunk. Called also <i>King of the Herrings</i> (q.v.).
1802. G. Barrington, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 388:
"The sea affords a much greater plenty, and at least as great a variety as the land; of these the elephant fish were very palatable food."
<hw>Ellangowan Poison-bush</hw>, <i>n.</i> a Queensland name for <i>Myoporum deserti</i>, Cunn., <i>N.O. Myoporinae</i>,; called "Dogwood Poison-bush" in New South Wales. Ellangowan is on the Darling Downs in Queensland. Poisonous to sheep, but only when in fruit.
<hw>Emancipatist</hw>, and <hw>Emancipist</hw>, <i>n</i>. (the latter, the commoner), an ex-convict who has served out his sentence. The words are never used now except historically.
1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 118:
"Emigrants who have come out free from England, and emancipists, who have arrived here as convicts, and have either been pardoned or completed their term of servitude."
1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 302: