[stur-juh
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) -geon, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -geons. | any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered. |
[stur-juhn] | Theodore (Hamilton), 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer. |
| stur·geon (stûr'jən) n. Any of various large ganoid freshwater and marine fishes of the family Acipenseridae of the Northern Hemisphere, having edible flesh and valued as a source of caviar and isinglass. [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French estourgeon, of Germanic origin.] |