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Answer for the clue "Any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes ", 9 letters:
argentine

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2285 Housing Units (2000): 964 Land area (2000): 2.481905 sq. miles (6.428105 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.794978 sq. miles (2.058984 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.276883 sq. miles (8.487089 sq. km) FIPS code: 03400 Located within: Michigan ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Argentine , Argentinian , and Argentinean refer to anything that originates in Argentina , a country in South America. It may also be used to refer to silver . As a noun, 'Argentine' is also used to refer to: Argentina itself, with the definite article ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"silver-colored," mid-15c., from Latin argentinus "of silver," from argentum (see argent ).

Usage examples of argentine.

Argentine Base, Deception Island, disclosed that, on July 3, 16 persons including three Chilean sub officers had observed an aerial object over the northern area of the island moving in a north-northeast direction, varying speed, oscillatory course, changing yellow-green-orange color, leaving a contrail at 30 degrees elevation.

Still on the same day, at the Argentine base at Orkney Island, two meteorological observers sighted an aerial object flying at high speed on a parabolic trajectory, course E-W, white luminosity, causing disturbance in the magnetic field registered on geomagnetic instruments with patterns notably out of the normal.

This terror, which I remember still prevalent both in Mexico and on the pampas of the Argentine Republic, not more than five-and-twenty years ago, was keener upon the confines of the Chaco than anywhere in South America, except, perhaps, in Chile, upon the frontiers of Araucania.

The ear of mortal never heard such a delirious, delicious, such a crystalline, argentine, ivory-smooth, velvety-soft, such a ravishing, such an enravished tumult of sweet voices.

In reality, however, it was the OMBU, which grows solitarily on the Argentine plains.

During a brief descent -- with a double stroke of the bell, the trammer announces the pit bottom, where lies the fill level and hence also the hope that hell may be exhausted and ascent decided upon -- Matern, wedged into the cage between director and foreman with dog, is informed that the mobile scarecrow fragments he has just seen have recently been in great demand, especially in the Argentine and in Canada, where the wide expanse of the wheatfields necessitates echeloned scarecrows.

Beneath the city streets, the warrens of rooms and corridors, the fences and the networks of steel track, the Argentine heart, in its perversity and guilt, longs for a return to that first unscribbled serenity .

Left unsupervised, she might shock the Argentines and everyone else for that matter with see-through fabrics and slits up to her waist.

Jose was watching the figure of Alfredo Morales, the man from the Argentine, as it disappeared amid the thickening blackness of the wood.

Antarctic deep-ocean water carries nutrients which feed economically important fisheries in many parts of the world - Argentine hake, Brazilian tuna, South African pilchard and the remnants of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

He unrolled a map of Chili and the Argentine provinces as he spoke, and spread it out on the table.

He had taken thirty days to cross Chili, the Cordilleras, the Pampas, and the Argentine plains, giving the DUNCAN ample time to double Cape Horn, and arrive on the opposite side.

According to an Argentine legend from the last century, Maria Antonia Correa followed her lover into that arid land, carrying their newborn child.

Argentine peaches, pears, strawberries, grapes and figs are highly appreciated.

Peron is dead, Evita even deader, even Isabel just a memory, but the Peronistas are still very much a part of the Argentine political scene.