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Definition of Capelin
1. Noun. Very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes.
Definition of Capelin
1. n. A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.
Definition of Capelin
1. Noun. A small fish of the smelt family found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, ''Mallotus villosus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Capelin
1. a small, edible fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capelin
Literary usage of Capelin
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)
"THE capelin. Mallotus OP this beautiful little fish, which inhabits the northern
... The Cod fishery does not commence until the arrival of the capelin, ..."
2. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"At spawning time, capelin appear in schools of considerable size along the ...
capelin mature at 3 or 4 years of age with faster growing fish maturing ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1826)
"By art, he captures annually more than two hundred millions of the cod with the
capelin, and one hundred millions with the cuttle-fish. ..."
4. An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe by James Nicol (1844)
"... of Birds—Puffins —Auk- Cormorant—Solan Goose—Gulls—Skuas—Petrels—No Reptiles
in Iceland or Faroe—ICHTHYOLOGY — Salmon — Trout — capelin— Eels — Herring ..."
5. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1882)
"The cod follows the capelin, and the capelin, it is said, is chased towards the
... It was maintained that the capelin would stay away if the whales were ..."
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