Alevin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 146 anagrams from letters in alevin (aeilnv).
1865-70; French, Old French ≪ Vulgar Latin *allevamen, equivalent to Latin allevā(re) to lift up, raise (probably in Vulgar Latin: to bring up, rear; al- al- + levāre t
The alevin stage is the stage in which the least mortality should be expected, and the little fish give but little trouble.
The alevin stage was that in which the fish give least trouble, the stage I am now describing is that in which they give most.