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Definition of Acipenser
1. Noun. Type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Acipenseridae, Family Acipenseridae
Member holonyms: Acipenser Transmontanus, Pacific Sturgeon, Sacramento Sturgeon, White Sturgeon, Acipenser Huso, Beluga, Hausen, White Sturgeon
Definition of Acipenser
1. n. A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.
Medical Definition of Acipenser
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acipenser
Literary usage of Acipenser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"The sturgeon, on the other ^and, is often ten or twelve feet in length. The acipenser
was not always in vogue with the Romans, but when it was, ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Lake Sturgeon, acipenser rubicundus Le Sueur. Ecorse, Mich. In the genus acipenser
the snout is sharp and conical, and the shark-like spiracle is still ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"... flattened growth of acipenser, and Teleostean features of Amia. and of Amia
to the Teleost, and the evidence on the side of embryology for connecting ..."
4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"acipenser*. The freshly laid ovum is 2 mm. in diameter and is invested by a ...
3 Our knowledge of the development of acipenser is in the main derived from ..."
5. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... which, constructs a nest of weeds, fastened together by a glutinous secretion
of the kidneys, and c FIG. 909.—Segmentation in acipenser (A), Anna (H), ..."
6. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"Very distinct fulcra exist along the anterior margin of all the fins, with the
exception of the pectorals. Habitat, Sault St. Mary. acipenser ..."
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