surf smelt
noun
A marine smelt, Hypomesus pretiosus (family Osmeridae), of the west coast of North America, which spawns in the surf during the day.
- Originally confused with H. olidus, a freshwater species..
Origin
Late 19th century.
- excreter
- excretion
- excretive
- excretory
- excruciate
- excruciating
- excruciatingly
- excruciation
- exculpate
- exculpation
- tubercle
- tubercle bacillus
- tubercle bacterium
- tubercled
- tubercle-infected
- tubercle of Montgomery
- tubercular
- tubercularisation
- tubercularization
- tubercularly
- tuberculate
- tuberculated
- tuberculately
- tuberculation
- tubercule