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Capelin vs Lodde - What's the difference?

capelin | lodde |

As nouns the difference between capelin and lodde

is that capelin is species: Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans while lodde is a fish, the capelin.

capelin

English

(wikipedia capelin)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • , 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).
  • * 1996 , (US) National Academy of Sciences, The Bering Sea Ecosystem , page 107,
    • Capelin are widely distributed in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka Peninsula.
  • * 2009 , Aslaug Asgeirsdottir, Who Gets What? , page 20,
    • Capelin is a relatively small, pelagic species found in the North-East Atlantic, the Barents Sea, Southwest of Greenland, off the coast of Labrador, and around Newfoundland.

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    lodde

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A fish, the capelin.
  • * 1813 , Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland
    • We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.
    (Webster 1913) ----