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CAPELIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does capelin mean?
• CAPELIN (noun)
The noun CAPELIN has 1 sense:
1. very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
Familiarity information: CAPELIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("capelin" is a kind of...):
smelt (small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters)
Holonyms ("capelin" is a member of...):
genus Mallotus; Mallotus (capelins)
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