Sturgeon Definition

stûrjən
sturgeons
noun
Any of a family (Acipenseridae, order Acipenseriformes) of large, edible, primitive bony fishes having rows of spiny plates along the body and a projecting snout: valuable as a source of caviar and isinglass.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sturgeon

Noun

Singular:
sturgeon
Plural:
sturgeons

Origin of Sturgeon

  • From Middle English sturgiun, sturjoun, from Anglo-Norman sturjoun, Old French esturgeon (“sturgeon"), from Old Frankish *sturjō, from Proto-Germanic *sturjô (“sturgeon"); see also Old High German sturio (“sturgeon") and Old English styria; from Proto-Germanic *sturjô; cognate with Russian осётр (osjótr, “sturgeon"), Lithuanian erÅ¡ketras; of obscure origin, but possibly related to the root of stir. Other theories trace it to a lost pre-Indo European language of Scandinavia.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman from Old French estourgeon of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sturgeon Sentence Examples

  • There is important sturgeon fishing.

  • Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.

  • The New York fisheries of Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Niagara and St Lawrence rivers yielded products in 1903 valued at $187,198 and consisting largely of pikeperch, herring, catfish, bullheads and sturgeon, and in 1902 there were commercial fisheries in sixteen interior lakes and rivers which yielded muscallonge, smelt, bullheads, pickerel, pike-perch and several other varieties having a total value of $87,897.

  • A few sturgeon are taken in Lake Champlain.

  • They are followed by the great sturgeon (Acipenser huso), the pike, the bream and the pike perch (Leucioperca sandra).

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