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Definition of Osmerus mordax

1. Noun. Important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmerus Mordax

Literary usage of Osmerus mordax

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

1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE SMELT (osmerus mordax) The smelts were formerly classed with the salmon family, but are now placed in a separate one, ..."

2. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"THE SMELT (osmerus mordax) The smelts were formerly classed with the salmon family, but are now placed in a separate one, ..."

3. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... all excellent food- fishes, although quickly spoiling in warm weather. Osmerus eperlanus is the European species ; osmerus mordax of our ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Central third of maxillary and proximal half of mandibular valve pigmented Osmerus mordax AA. No mesal thickening. Pigment spots near attachment of ..."

5. In the Maine Woods by Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company (1904)
"osmerus mordax. The smelt is indigenous to some of the lower waters of the B. & A. country, and has been introduced into more northern waters where it has ..."

6. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"In Wilton Pond, Kennebec County, Maine, is a land-locked smelt which has been recognized as a subspecies of the common smelt under the name osmerus mordax ..."

7. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1882)
"... of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries (which you were kind enough to send me in 1880), that the smelt is there called osmerus mordax and ..."

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