capelin
Noun
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Noun
capelin (plural capelins)
- Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
- 1983, Bodil Kaalund, Kenneth Tindall (translator), The Art of Greenland: Sculpture, Crafts, Painting, page 161 ↗,
- The birds are spread - so that we can see what they are like; and the men catching capelins are elevated up out of the umiak, where they practically float on the gunwale, so that we can perceive that they are the main figures and see their work-movements (fig. 250).
- 1983, Bodil Kaalund, Kenneth Tindall (translator), The Art of Greenland: Sculpture, Crafts, Painting, page 161 ↗,
- French: capelan
- German: Lodde, Kapelan
- Russian: мо́йва
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