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Definition of Alevins
1. alevin [n] - See also: alevin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alevins
Literary usage of Alevins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them by Livingston Stone (1877)
"CARE OF alevins * OR TROUT FRY WITH THE YOLK SAC ATTACHED. SOME morning when you
go to the hatching boxes with the nippers to look over the eggs, ..."
2. Marvels of Fish Life as Revealed by the Camera by Francis Ward (1911)
"To return to the alevins in the gravel, at first the mortality amongst them is
... At five weeks old the alevins have acquired a more fish-like appearance, ..."
3. Trout Waters Management and Angling by Wilson H. Armistead (1908)
"During the three to six weeks when the alevins are thus lying helpless, ...
One duck will gobble up a few hundred alevins in five minutes and then swim off ..."
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