Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pollan . - noun A name applied to the salmon in parts of Great Britain: equivalent to the Welsh name gwyniad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small British lake whitefish (
Coregonus clupeoides , orCoregonus ferus ); -- called alsogwyniad andlake herring .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
freshwater whitefish endemic toLoch Lomond inScotland .
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Examples
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For example, in Loch Lomond in Scotland the invasive ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) eats the eggs of an arctic relict species, the powan (Coregonus lavaretus), thereby threatening this species in one of its only British habitats [66].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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A lake fish, called "ferras," a large species of the salmonid genus _Coregonus_, to which the skelly, powan, and vendayce of British lakes belong, is the commonest fish of the _table d'hôte_, and not very good.
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The powan, or fresh-water herring (_Coregonus_), of which there are several marine and fresh-water species.
Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes Elias L��nnrot 1843
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The perch and grayling spawn in the end of April or the beginning of May; the tench and roach about the middle of June; the common trout and powan in October and November.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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