Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Caviar made from the roe of a sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) of the Caspian and Black Seas, having small grains and a gray color,
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- noun A type of
sturgeon , Acipenser stellatus. - noun An expensive
caviar made from its eggs.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dishes that Dazzle: When Price Is No ObjectZillion Dollar FrittataOn the menu at Norma's at Le Parker Meridien hotel in New York, this $1,000 six-egg omelette comes complete with an entire lobster's worth of meat and 10 ounces of sevruga caviar on top.
Eating to Extremes 2009
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The two pounds of caviar in each of the sevruga sturgeons are worth $40 wholesale on the Volga delta -- and up to $1,400 in New York or Paris.
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My very best friend and I splurged once and bought a whole tin of sevruga caviar and ate it with a bottle of Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1990.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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My very best friend and I splurged once and bought a whole tin of sevruga caviar and ate it with a bottle of Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1990.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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Before dinner we munched on quail eggs and sevruga and checked out the Picassos.
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Tasting Kentucky paddlefish roe that could pass for sevruga caviar.
Like a Sturgeon 2007
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But only Russian mafiosi can get hold of opulent, charcoal-grey, mild and civilized Beluga eggs nowadays. for the rest of us, paddlefish may look like a tarry smear, but in a blind tasting, they make many folks think they are eating sevruga, a prized Caspian sturgeon variety with small eggs and a buttery flavor.
Like a Sturgeon 2007
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Now the Grand Hotel Europe has all the sushi, sashimi, oysters, and sevruga caviar you can eat, at the jazz brunch on Sundays, in the beautiful dining room with its painted, vaulted ceiling.
Sleepless in St. Petersburg Mather, Victoria 2006
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In the city of long white nights, the czarist splendors of the Hermitage, the Catherine Palace, and the Mariinsky Theatre meet a vital new Russia of capitalist excess (gold-filtered vodka, all-you-can-eat sevruga) and unsolved mysteries. by
Sleepless in St. Petersburg Mather, Victoria 2006
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“Oysters and pearls,” announced the waiter, setting down a tiny portion of Caraquet oysters and tapioca topped with a scoop of sevruga caviar, a Keller signature that elicited sighs of rapture.
Two Months of Waiting Yields Five Hours in Foodie Heaven 2005
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