Definitions for sturgeon

sturgeon stur·geon

Spelling: [stur-juh n]
IPA: /ˈstɜr dʒən/

Sturgeon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 416 anagrams from letters in sturgeon (egnorstu).

Definitions for sturgeon

noun

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

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

Examples for sturgeon

They have red firm flesh, and to eat are like sturgeon, they say.

Once the sturgeon was very plentiful in the lakes and rivers of our country.

When we came to sturgeon Bay, I took a cut in through the bar.

I glanced at the sturgeon and for pleasure, I smacked my lips—it was so piquant!

"I think the sturgeon is at the bottom of it," was the reply.

This river is full of sturgeon, as also are the two rivers of New Netherland.

Fish abound in the lake, and sturgeon of large size are captured there.

sturgeon also was caught at a little later date, and bass and alewives.

Salmon, tuna, sturgeon, mussels, oysters, and sable are marinated and smoked using hickory and alder wood.

I remember a child, who on tasting the gristle of sturgeon, asked what gristle was?

Word Value for sturgeon
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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