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sterlet

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ster·let  (stûrlt)
n.
A sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) of the Black and Caspian seas, used as a source of caviar.
[Russian sterlyad', from Old Russian sterlyagi, of Germanic origin.]
sterlet [ˈstɜːlɪt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus, of seas and rivers in N Asia and E Europe: used as a food fish and a source of caviar
[from Russian sterlyad, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German sturio sturgeon]


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Each fish was brought over in a cask -- one filled with river herbs and weeds, the other with rushes and lake plants; they were placed in a wagon built on purpose, and thus the sterlet lived twelve days, the lamprey eight, and both were alive when my cook seized them, killing one with milk and the other with wine.
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