smolt
/sməʊlt
/noun
A young salmon (or trout) after the parr stage, when it becomes silvery and migrates to the sea for the first time.Perhaps only 50 reach the ocean as smolts - young salmon that have taken on the characteristic silvery color - about two years later....
- During our 1996 investigations, we found evidence of predation on a salmon smolt by striped bass, and we utilized available ultrasonic tags to monitor the movements of striped bass.
- While in freshwater, Chinook Salmon fry and smolts feed on plankton and then terrestrial and aquatic insects, amphipods and crustaceans.
Origin
Late Middle English (originally Scots and northern English): of unknown origin; compare with smelt3.
Rhymes
- dissertate
- dissertation
- dissertational
- disservice
- dissever
- disseverance
- disseverment
- dissidence
- dissident
- dissimilar
- dissimilarity
- dissimilarly
- dissimilate
- dissimilation
- dissimilatory
- dissimilitude
- dissimulate
- dissimulation
- dissimulator
- dissipate
- dissipated
- dissipation
- dissipative
- dissipator
- dissociable