Sturgeon Definition

stûrjən
sturgeons
noun
Any of a family (Acipenseridae, order Acipenseriformes) of large, edible, primitive bony fishes having rows of spiny plates along the body and a projecting snout: valuable as a source of caviar and isinglass.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sturgeon

Noun

Singular:
sturgeon
Plural:
sturgeons

Origin of Sturgeon

  • From Middle English sturgiun, sturjoun, from Anglo-Norman sturjoun, Old French esturgeon (“sturgeon"), from Old Frankish *sturjō, from Proto-Germanic *sturjô (“sturgeon"); see also Old High German sturio (“sturgeon") and Old English styria; from Proto-Germanic *sturjô; cognate with Russian осётр (osjótr, “sturgeon"), Lithuanian erÅ¡ketras; of obscure origin, but possibly related to the root of stir. Other theories trace it to a lost pre-Indo European language of Scandinavia.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Anglo-Norman from Old French estourgeon of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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