white sturgeon

1. 1.

   valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas

   SynonymsbelugahausenAcipenser huso

   Broadersturgeon

   Part ofAcipenser

   Partsbeluga caviar
2. 2.

   food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America

   SynonymsPacific sturgeonSacramento sturgeonAcipenser transmontanus

   Broadersturgeon

   Part ofAcipenser

Questions about white sturgeon

What does white sturgeon mean?

white sturgeon means "valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for white sturgeon?

Close synonyms include beluga, hausen, Acipenser huso, Pacific sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon. 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 white sturgeon a common word?

white sturgeon 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.