alevin

[prettygoodword]

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.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I wonder whether this is connected to alewife.

[med_cat]

There's a word for that!