Common name | Smelt |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 4 - (Less common name) |
Country | Estonia |
Locality | |
Ref. | Anonymous, 1999 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | taste/smell |
1st modifier | |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | (European smelt). 'smelt', i.e., used to refer to any of the salmonid species of the genus Osmerus with delicate oily flesh, distinctive odor and taste (p. 1113 from Ref. 11978); etymologically, 'smelt' from Old English 'melt' borrowed from Middle Low German 'melt-' from Indo-European 'meld-, mold-, mld-' (p. 344 in Ref. 11979). |