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say it: STUR-juhn
sturgeon is a noun meaning "large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone". It is pronounced /ˈstɝdʒən/ — STUR-juhn. It carries one recorded sense.
large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sturgeon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.