Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Gadidæ, Gadus minutus, the poor.
- noun Same as
caplin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
capelin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
capelin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
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The Soviet Union with their fleet were overquota fishing on cod, herring and capelan.
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