american smelt

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   common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska

   Synonymsrainbow smelt

   Broadersmelt

   Part ofrainbow smelt

Questions about american smelt

What does american smelt mean?

american smelt means "common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska".

What is another word for american smelt?

Close synonyms include rainbow smelt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american smelt a common word?

american smelt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.