sturgeon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of a family of usually large, long-bodied freshwater or migratory fishes with rows of bony plates, valued especially for roe used as caviar

   Under the old law, a stranded whale or sturgeon belonged to the Crown.

From Middle English sturgeoun and Anglo-French estourgeoun, from a Germanic source akin to Old English styria, sturgeon. The deeper origin of the Germanic fish name is uncertain. The word displaced the older native English form during the Middle Ages.

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