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Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridæ. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the a…

A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.

A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.

lage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

up of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.

e from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue.

A species of sturgeon.

pi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

med like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white sturgeon.

A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.

An order of fishes including the sturgeons.

One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.

surer of England. Macaulay. -- White stork (Zoöl.), the common European stork. -- White sturgeon. (Zoöl.) See Shovelnose (d). -- White sucker. (Zoöl.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum). -- White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflamma…