any marine or freshwater salmonoid food fish of the family Osmeridae, such as Osmerus eperlanus of Europe, having a long silvery body and occurring in temperate and cold northern waters
Word origin
Old English smylt; related to Dutch, Danish smelt, Norwegian smelta, German Schmelz
Examples of 'sand smelt' in a sentence
sand smelt
Frying increased oxidative processes and decreased the nutritional value of sand smelt.
Alessandro Dal Bosco, Simona Mattioli, Simone Mancini, Alice Cartoni Mancinelli, ElisaCotozzolo, Cesare Castellini 2019, 'Nutritional composition of raw and fried big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri) fromtrasimeno lake', Italian Journal of Animal Sciencehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2018.1548915. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)