WHITE STURGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white sturgeon mean? 

• WHITE STURGEON (noun)
  The noun WHITE STURGEON has 2 senses:

1. valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas

2. food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America

  Familiarity information: WHITE STURGEON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE STURGEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Acipenser huso; beluga; hausen; white sturgeon

Hypernyms ("white sturgeon" is a kind of...):

sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)

Meronyms (parts of "white sturgeon"):

beluga caviar (roe of beluga sturgeon usually from Russia; highly valued)

Holonyms ("white sturgeon" is a member of...):

Acipenser; genus Acipenser (type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Acipenser transmontanus; Pacific sturgeon; Sacramento sturgeon; white sturgeon

Hypernyms ("white sturgeon" is a kind of...):

sturgeon (large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone)

Holonyms ("white sturgeon" is a member of...):

Acipenser; genus Acipenser (type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons)