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alevin

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A newly hatched salmon or trout that is still attached to the yolk sac.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The young of any fish; especially, a young salmonid or clupeid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Young fish; fry.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Newly hatched fish, especially salmon.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *adlevīmen, alteration (influenced by Latin nūtrīmen, nourishment) of Vulgar Latin *adlevāmen, from *adlevāre, to raise (a child, an animal), alteration (influenced by Late Latin ēlevāre, to raise (a child, an animal)) of Latin allevāre, to lift up : ad-, al-, ad- + levāre, to lift, raise; see lever.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French, from Vulgar Latin  (allevamen) equivalent to Latin allevā(re) ("to lift up, raise")+ (-men)

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Examples

  • When a trout or salmon hatches from the egg called the alevin stage, it retains a significant portion of the yolk attached to the throat region.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • When a trout or salmon hatches from the egg called the alevin stage, it retains a significant portion of the yolk attached to the throat region.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • When a trout or salmon hatches from the egg called the alevin stage, it retains a significant portion of the yolk attached to the throat region.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • When a trout or salmon hatches from the egg called the alevin stage, it retains a significant portion of the yolk attached to the throat region.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Though when they fail, the URL is there to save the day. alevin said at 1pm on Nov 16th # |

    The death of the URL | FactoryCity 2009

  • Bottom line – this is old news. alevin said at 7pm on Nov 16th # |

    The death of the URL | FactoryCity 2009

  • And it means that the customers for the tools need to be thought of as people who use them for personal and social use, not just fellow geeks. alevin said at 1pm on Nov 16th # |

    The death of the URL | FactoryCity 2009

  • In addition, individual life stages (e.g., egg, alevin, juvenile, adult) differ in their thermal preferenda linked to optimizing criteria specific to their developmental stage.

    Information required to project responses of arctic fish 2009

  • This yolk-sac allows the alevin to attain a relatively large size in the first month or so of its life and eliminates the total dependence on feeding.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • This yolk-sac allows the alevin to attain a relatively large size in the first month or so of its life and eliminates the total dependence on feeding.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

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Words with the same meaning

  1. fry

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  • hernesheir commented on the word alevin

    Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "Would like the following agents to meet me (at) (on)". --US Railway Assn. Standard Cipher Code, 1906.

    January 19, 2013

  • qms commented on the word alevin

    The raids are increasingly bold,

    Now salmon are traded for gold.

    Oh, where is the paladin

    Who’ll rescue our alevin

    Before their breeding ground’s sold?

    See:

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/bristol-bay-salmon-invs/index.html

    October 23, 2017