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Word entry · 7 letters

capelin

Best crossword clue

"Small northern swimmer"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aceilnpStarts with CEnds with N1 clues
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Definitions

  1. very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French capelan, from Provençal and Old Occitan capelan, from Late Latin cappellānus (“chaplain”). Doublet of chaplain.

Used in a sentence

  • Capelin are widely distributed in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka Peninsula.
  • Capelin is a relatively small, pelagic species found in the North-East Atlantic, the Barents Sea, Southwest of Greenland, off the coast of Labrador, and around Newfoundland.

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