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Definition of Sturgeons

1. sturgeon [n] - See also: sturgeon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sturgeons

Literary usage of Sturgeons

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

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Of the true sturgeons there are about 16 species, of which 5 occur in our waters. д. Plates between ventrals and anal fin small, in 2 rows, of to 8 plates ..."

2. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America by Louis Hennepin, Victor Hugo Paltsits (1903)
"... but by good chance we found a great quantity [144] of sturgeons, with long Bills, as we call'd them, ..."

3. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"(sturgeons.') The family of sturgeons is well characterized and easily distinguished from any other in the class. These fishes have generally been placed in ..."

4. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"The family of sturgeons is well characterized and easily distinguished from any other in the class. These fishes have generally been placed in the order of ..."

5. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"S {sturgeons.) The family of sturgeons is well characterized and easily distinguished from any other in the class. These fishes have generally been placed ..."

6. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"THE sturgeons. There are six species of sturgeon in the waters of the United States. ... While all of the sturgeons are edible and caught for market, ..."

7. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"THE sturgeons. On the white sand of the bottom Lay the monster miche-Nahma Lay the sturgeon, ... Thé principal one of course is that of the true sturgeons ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... gars ("billfish"), sturgeons, etc., receive the term (technically rostrum), and these are often bird-like, as in the case of the spoon-billed catfish. ..."

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