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Definition of Capelins
1. capelin [n] - See also: capelin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capelins
Literary usage of Capelins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Jaws with minute teeth; similar teeth on tongue and palate; maxillary reaching
past front of eye; Hypomesus, 230 GENUS MALLOTUS CUV 1ER The capelins Body ..."
2. Man and Beast Here and Hereafter: Illustrated by More Than Three Hundred by John George Wood (1875)
"Please, sir, give me my share of capelins.' I went the rounds three times more,
and let him have the fish, as he had shown himself' so sagacious, ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1868)
"Herrings were anxiously looked for by the fishermen, as they had now no bait,
capelins having got coarse. Herrings were about, but they would not " mesh. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"This is much frequented in summer by the Greenlanders, who catch large numbers
of capelins and cod, which frequent the coast in shoals, as well as the Salmo ..."
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