Common name of Hyperoplus lanceolatus
 
Common name Smelt
Language Dutch
Type Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 2 - (Preferred common name (unique))
Country Netherlands
Locality
Ref. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1990
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core taste/smell
1st modifier
2nd modifier
Remarks 'smelt', i.e., used to refer to any of the salmonid species of the genus Osmerus with delicate oily flesh, distinctive oder and taste (p. 1113 from Ref. 11978); etymologically, 'smelt' from Old English 'melt' borrowed from Middle Low German 'melt-' from Indo-European 'meld-, mold-, mld-' (p. 344 in Ref. 11979).
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