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Webster 1913 Edition

Acipenser

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Acˊi-pen′ser

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Noun.
[L., the name of a fish.]
(Zool.)
A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See
Sturgeon
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Webster 1828 Edition

Acipenser

AC'IPENSER

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Adj.
In ichthyology, a genus of fishes, of the order of chondropterygii, having an obtuse head; the mouth under the head, retractile and without teeth. To this genus belong the sturgeon, sterlet, huso, &c.

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