sterlet
nounEtymology From Russian сте́рлядь (stérljadʹ).
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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: