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ALL meanings of sturgeon

stur·geon
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  • noun plural sturgeon any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered. 1
  • noun sturgeon Theodore (Hamilton) 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer. 1
  • noun sturgeon marine fish 1
  • variable noun sturgeon A sturgeon is a large fish which lives in northern parts of the world. Sturgeon are usually caught for their eggs, which are known as caviar. 0
  • noun sturgeon any primitive bony fish of the family Acipenseridae, of temperate waters of the N hemisphere, having an elongated snout and rows of spines along the body: valued as a source of caviar and isinglass 0
  • noun sturgeon Nicola (Ferguson). born 1970, Scottish Nationalist politician; first minister of the Scottish Parliament from 2014 0
  • noun sturgeon 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 0
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