osmerus mordax

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   important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska

   Synonymsrainbow smelt

   Broadersmelt

   Part ofOsmerus

   PartsAmerican smelt

Questions about osmerus mordax

What does osmerus mordax mean?

osmerus mordax means "important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska".

What is another word for osmerus mordax?

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 osmerus mordax a common word?

osmerus mordax 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.