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  sturgeon

  noun

  any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt waters in the North Temperate Zone, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: Acipenser brevirostrum shortnose sturgeon, of the Atlantic coast, is a vulnerable species.
• Sturgeon
  Sturgeon

  noun

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

sturgeon

¹ American  

[stur-juhn] / ˈstɜr dʒən /

noun

sturgeon, plural sturgeons plural

1. any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt waters in the North Temperate Zone, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: Acipenser brevirostrum shortnose sturgeon, of the Atlantic coast, is a vulnerable species.

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Sturgeon ² American  

[stur-juhn] / ˈstɜr dʒən /

noun

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

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sturgeon British  

/ ˈstɜːdʒən /

noun

1. 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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sturgeon
  plural
• sturgeons
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sturgeon

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

Example Sentences

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Thanks to a conservation program that started early in the last century, sturgeon are thriving here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The Michigan native hadn’t heard of sturgeon spearing until he took the job as head of the tourism group 15 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Native fish that are increasingly threatened include the finger-sized Delta smelt and white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in North America, which can reach more than 10 feet long.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

Island Creek Oysters offers quite the selection, including kaluga, white sturgeon, Siberian, and osetra varieties.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

Out in the harbor a sturgeon makes a single leap like a silver horse and then is gone.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The Sturgeon Moon, named after the freshwater fish caught by Native Americans in the Great Lakes, will rise on 28 August.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

The Press Association took an image of Nicola Sturgeon appearing on The Andrew Marr Show from her home in Glasgow on 25 April 2021.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

As part of Police Scotland's Operation Branchform Sturgeon was interviewed in June 2023 by detectives.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

There are several pictures of Sturgeon using expensive Montblanc pens, which look similar to the ones that appear on Murrell's list of stolen items.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

How many high school libraries are even allowed to stock Theodore Sturgeon, or all of Robert Heinlein?

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

As Professor Wang points out, however, this massive, river-blocking structure also prevents the Yangtze's giant sturgeons from reaching their spawning grounds.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

The breach would also have been devastating for the scarce wild sturgeons in the Dnipro.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 3, 2024

They found that 21% of the samples came from wild-caught sturgeons, which were sold in all of the countries studied.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023

After analyzing each sample's DNA and isotope patterns, the team found that 21% of the samples came from wild-caught sturgeons and that these wild-caught fish were sold in all of the countries studied.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023

Then he realized Frank meant sturgeons, like the fish.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan