Definition of American smelt

1. Noun. Common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska.

Exact synonyms: Rainbow Smelt
Group relationships: Osmerus Mordax, Rainbow Smelt
Generic synonyms: Smelt

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Smelt

American pulsatilla
American quaking aspen
American raspberry
American rattlebox
American red elder
American red plum
American red squirrel
American redstart
American robin
American robins
American rock brake
American sable
American saddle horse
American shrew mole
American sign language
American smelt
American smokewood
American smooth dogfish
American spelling
American spellings
American spicebush
American spikenard
American state
American sweet chestnut
American sweet gum
American sweetgum
American sweetgums
American sycamore
American tarantula

Literary usage of American smelt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States, and British by Henry William Herbert (1849)
"... in the United States, two distinct species of this fish: the Common American Smelt (Osmerus Viridescens),—which differs from the European Smelt (Osmerus ..."

2. Bi-monthly Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers by American Institute of Mining Engineers (1918)
"1911-12, Asst. Chem., Tacoma Plant, american smelt. & Refin. ... Present position—1914 to date: Chief Chem. and Asst. Met., Murray Plant, american smelt. ..."

3. New Brunswick: With a Brief Outline of Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island by Alexander Monro (1855)
"The american smelt. The Capelin. The White Fish. ... The american smelt abounds in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ; $ i the Gulf shore large quantities are ..."

4. New Brunswick; with a Brief Outline of Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island by Alexander Monro (1855)
"The american smelt. The Capelin. The White Fish. ... The american smelt abounds in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ; on the Gulf shore large quantities are ..."

5. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... american smelt Osmerus mordax (Mitchill) This is the smelt of America. It is found along our Atlantic Coast from Virginia to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ..."

6. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"... common american smelt (O. mordax) is most abundant along the coasts of New England and the Middle States. The Common Smelt of this genus of the ..."

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