Definitions for sterlets

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sterlets ster·let

Spelling: [stur-lit]

IPA: /ˈstɜr lɪt/

Sterlets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in sterlets (eelrsstt).

Definitions for sterlets

noun

1. a small sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus, of the Black and Caspian seas, valued as a source of caviar.

Origin of sterlets

1585-95; Russian stérlyad', Old Russian sterlyagi (plural) German Störling a small sturgeon, equivalent to Stör sturgeon (Middle High German stör(e), stür(e), Old High German stur(i)o; cf.

Examples for sterlets

This day investigation dropped; reconsidered verdict states poisoning to have been by sterlet caviar.

Does not this animal fulfil in the egg of the sterlet, the same office as the histriobdella in the egg of the lobster?

Polypodium hydriforme Ussow is a fresh-water form parasitic on the eggs of the sterlet.

A favourite fish among the higher classes is the sterlet, a sort of sturgeon; soup is made of it, but it is very expensive.

There can be no doubt that the sturgeon or sterlet is meant by this term, for Platina calls the eggs of the fish “caviare.”

Still another is made of a fish called the sterlet, which is found only in the Volga, the principal river of Russia.

Our sterlet was nearly two feet long, and may have cost twenty or thirty dollars.