sturgeon

[stur-juh n]

noun, plural (especially collectively) stur·geon, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) stur·geons.

any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.

Origin of sturgeon

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French esturgeon < Germanic; compare Old English styria, Old High German sturio (German Stör), Old Norse styrja

Sturgeon

[stur-juh n]

noun

Theodore (Hamilton),1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.

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Examples from the Web for sturgeon

Contemporary Examples of sturgeon

Salmon, tuna, sturgeon, mussels, oysters, and sable are marinated and smoked using hickory and alder wood.
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Jane & Michael Stern
April 20, 2014

Historical Examples of sturgeon

They have red firm flesh, and to eat are like sturgeon, they say.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
William G. Burn Murdoch
Sturgeon also was caught at a little later date, and bass and alewives.
Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle
When we came to Sturgeon Bay, I took a cut in through the bar.
Old Rail Fence Corners
Various
"I think the sturgeon is at the bottom of it," was the reply.
Hildegarde's Holiday
Laura E. Richards
I remember a child, who on tasting the gristle of sturgeon, asked what gristle was?
Zoonomia, Vol. II
Erasmus Darwin

British Dictionary definitions for sturgeon

sturgeon

noun

any primitive bony fish of the family Acipenseridae, of temperate waters of the N hemisphere, having an elongated snout and rows of spines along the body: valued as a source of caviar and isinglass

Word Origin for sturgeon

C13: from Old French estourgeon, of Germanic origin; related to Old English styria, Old High German sturio

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Word Origin and History for sturgeon

c.1300, from Anglo-French sturgeon, Old French esturjon, from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German sturio "sturgeon," Old English styria), from Proto-Germanic *sturjon-; cognate with Lithuanian ersketras, Russian osetr "sturgeon." Of obscure origin, perhaps from a lost pre-Indo-Eeuropean tongue of northern Europe, or from the root of stir. Medieval Latin sturio, Italian storione, Spanish esturion are Germanic loan-words.