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alevin (AL-uh-vuhn) - n., a young fish, esp. a newly hatched fish still attached to the yolk, esp. a salmon.
A technical term used with varying degrees of looseness. When the yolk is depleted, and it starts eating, the fish becomes a fry, and when it develops scales and working fins, a juvenile. Adopted in 1868 from French, from Old French, from alever, to rear (offspring), from Latin allevare, from ad- + levare, to raise.
---L.
A technical term used with varying degrees of looseness. When the yolk is depleted, and it starts eating, the fish becomes a fry, and when it develops scales and working fins, a juvenile. Adopted in 1868 from French, from Old French, from alever, to rear (offspring), from Latin allevare, from ad- + levare, to raise.
---L.
