hausenn.
/haʊz(ə)n//ˈhɔːz(ə)n/ The largest species of sturgeon, of the Black and Caspian Seas and their rivers, Acipenser huso.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > [noun] > infraclass Chondrostei > order Acipenseriformes > member of genus Acipenser
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1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. 251 They say that the hawsom fish in the Danube has been taken twenty-one feet in length.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 206 Their larger fish are called hawsons, being about twenty feet long, and not unlike a sturgeon in the taste.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 361 Acipenser,..the Hausen..from rivers, falling into the Black Sea and the Sea of Azow..sometimes 12 feet long, and yielding an inferior kind of isinglass.
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