osmerid

plural osmerids

1. biologyAny fish of the family Osmeridae, a smelt.

   Osmerids are generally small, silvery, elongate fishes that swim in the water column.

   2009, Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, page 279

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   Getting back to feeding, we found it convenient at Point Mugu to use two forms of fish: the smaller osmerids for training purposes (they are cleaner than cut fish), and mackerel.

   1966, Kenneth Stafford Norris, Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, page 663

   She proved the independence of the evolutionary development of osmerids and plecoglossids which form an independent suborder and clearly outlined main traits of similarity and difference of the Salmonoidei and the osmerids.

   1997, Journal of Ichthyology, volume 37, page 207

   Synonyms: smelt