sturgeon: Meaning and Definition of

stur•geon

1. any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass:of the Atlantic coast, is endangered. A. brevirostrum,

Stur•geon

1. 1918–85, U.S. science-fiction writer.