Definitions for sturgeons

sturgeons stur·geon

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

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

You can make 512 anagrams from letters in sturgeons (egnorsstu).

Definitions for sturgeons

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 sturgeons

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 sturgeons

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for sturgeons
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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