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sterlets

sterlets is the plural of sterlet.

Meaning of sterlet

Noun

sterlet (plural sterlets)

  1. A smaller, common Eurasian sturgeon, of the species Acipenser ruthenus.
    • The old prince sat in silence, looking with his glistening little eyes sidewise at Karénin, and Stepán Arkádevich understood that he had concocted some witticism to hurl at the statesman, to whom they were invited as to a sterlet.1904 [1878], chapter 9, in Leo Wiener, transl., Anna Karénin, Boston: D. Estes & Company, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 4

Questions about sterlets

What is sterlets the plural of?
Sterlets is the plural of sterlet.

Words near sterlets in the dictionary

  1. Sterkels
  2. Sterkfontein
  3. Sterkfontein ape-man
  4. Sterks
  5. sterlet
  6. sterlets
  7. sterling
  8. Sterling City
  9. Sterling County
  10. Sterling Heights
  11. Sterling Junction

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