Common name | Goiter blacksmelt |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
Country | United States (contiguous states) |
Locality | |
Ref. | Hardy, J.D., 1993 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | taste/smell |
1st modifier | color pattern(s) |
2nd modifier | morphology |
Remarks | 'smelt', i.e., used to refer to any of the salmonid species of the genus Osmerus with delicate oily flesh, distinctive oder and taste (p. 1113 from Ref. 11978); etymologically, 'smelt' from Old English 'melt' borrowed from Middle Low German 'melt-' from Indo-European 'meld-, mold-, mld-' (p. 344 in Ref. 11979); 'goiter' from Old French 'goitron', i.e., throat, from Latin 'guttur', i.e., throat (p. 347, Ref. 9404). |