alevin

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The eggs will hatch out alevin, the salmon's answer to tadpoles, larval fish with attached yolk sacs who live under the gravel for a few weeks.

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  • The eggs will hatch out alevin, the salmon's answer to tadpoles, larval fish with attached yolk sacs who live under the gravel for a few weeks. —  Coyote Crossing
  • When they deplete their yolks, alevin emerge from the streambed as fry, and flit about in the pools for about a year, eating bugs and crawdads and tadpoles and smaller fish. —  Coyote Crossing
  • Silt covers gravel vital to spawning, cutting off oxygen to eggs and alevin. —  Coyote Crossing
  • The newly hatched salmon, or alevin, encumbered with its legacy of yolk (Y.S.). —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
  • The alevin stage is the stage in which the least mortality should be expected, and the little fish give but little trouble. —  Amateur Fish Culture
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  1. from French alevin, prob. for *alevain, from Old French alever, rear, from Latin adlevare, raise, from ad, to, + levare, raise. Cf. alleve, alleviate.
 

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