| NOUN | food | smelt | small cold-water silvery fish |
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| animal | smelt | small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters | |
| VERB | creation | smelt | extract (metals) by heating |
| Sounds | smeh'lt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | belt ... welt: 13 rhymes with ehlt... | |
| Meaning | small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water. | |
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| Part of | smelt | small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters |
| Narrower | American smelt, rainbow smelt | Common smelt / smelt of eastern North America and Alaska |
| European smelt, sparling | Common smelt / smelt of Europe | |
| Broader | fish | The flesh of fish used as food |
| Spanish | eperlano, esperiano | |
| Catalan | esperlà | |
| Meaning | small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters. | |
|---|---|---|
| Member of | Osmeridae, family Osmeridae | smelts |
| Parts | smelt | small cold-water silvery fish |
| Narrower | capelin, capelan, caplin | Very small northern fish |
| rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax | Important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska | |
| sparling, European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus | The common smelt of Europe | |
| Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
| Meaning | extract (metals) by heating. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Entails | heat, heat up | make hot or hotter |
| Broader | produce, make, create | create or manufacture a man-made product |
| Spanish | fundir | |
| Catalan | fondre | |
| Nouns | smelter | an industrial plant for smelting |
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