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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The sturgeons, a family of chondrosteous ganoid fishes, sometimes including only the genus Acipenser, sometimes also the genus Scaphirhynchops.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The natural family of fish including the sturgeons.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sturgeons

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