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capelin

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cap=e=lin

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun capelin has 1 sense

capelin(n = noun.animal) capelan, caplin - very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes; Array

is a kind of smelt

is a member of genus mallotus, mallotus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

capelin, n. [Cf. F. capelan, caplan.].

Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonidæ, now within the smelt family Osmeridae: Mallotus villosus, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska; or Mallotus catervarius, found in the North Pacific. The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod. [1913 Webster]

" This fish, which is like a smelt, is called by the Spaniards anchova, and by the Portuguese capelina. However the anchovy used as a food is a different fish." Fisheries of U. S. (1884). [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

capelin, n. (also caplin) a small smeltlike fish, Mallotus villosus, of the N. Atlantic, used as food and as bait for catching cod etc.

Etymology

F f. Prov. capelan: see CHAPLAIN

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