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beluga

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Russian beluga , literally "great white," from belo- "white" (from PIE *bhel-o- , from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn;" see bleach (v.)) + augmentative suffix -uga . Originally the great sturgeon, found in the Caspian and Black seas; ...

Usage examples of beluga.

The first of the mighty beluga sturgeon had just broached the stream when he gave the word.

They found Shimoda there, lying on a straining imitation-wood lounge, basking in the sun like a beached beluga.

The chief prosecutor made the introductions, one by one, in the formal Japanese manner, while waitresses in kimono and obi circulated with glasses of Louis Roederer champagne, beluga malossol caviar, and toro, the fat-webbed sushi Japanese loved.

Among the various foods Bond noticed two round five-pound tins of Beluga caviar and several terrines of foie gras.

Reach-around swingarms held a bewildering variety of refreshmentsfrom beluga on toast points to Roderer Cristal on tapfor those occasions when the Adventure feed was directed to the screen, rather than the induction helmet that hung over the back like the cap on an electric chair.

Among the various foods Bond noticed two round five-pound tins of Beluga caviar and several terrines of foie gras.

Raven, Elk, Griffon, White Bear, Beluga, Snow Tiger, Thunderbeast, and Gray Wolf.

Basko ate prime steak, Beluga caviar, Haagen-Dazs ice cream and Fritos soaked in ketchup.

Fish flapped in the sink, crustaceans clicked across the tiles and beluga dripped from the ceiling.

Sam told her, "except for the porpoises and a few others, like the belugas.

Kane’s first voyage, were those long-tusked little whales, and seals and walrus, and belugas everywhere.

Into the vista he was crowding everything Erasmus had described to him, the whales and belugas and seals and walrus churning through the water, the fulmars and guillemots whirring and diving, the murres and kittiwakes guarding their eggs from the foxes.

A long folding table has been covered with a red tablecloth and is jammed with pans and plates and bowls of roasted hazelnuts and lobster and oyster bisques and celery root soup with apples and Beluga caviar on toast points and creamed onions and roast goose with chestnut stung and caviar in puff pastry and vegetable tarts with tapenade, roast duck and roast rack of veal with shallots and gnocchi gratin and vegetable strudel and Waldorf salad and scallops and bruschetta with mascarpone and white truffles and green chili soufflé and roast partridge with sage, potatoes and onion and cranberry sauce, mincemeat pies and chocolate truffles and lemon soufflé tarts and pecan tarte Tatin.

The buffet consisted of Beluga Malossol caviar, pate de campagne, smoked Scottish salmon, oysters on the half shell, backfin lump crabmeat, crudites with a shallot vinaigrette dressing, and Cristal champagne.

A long folding table has been covered with a red tablecloth and is jammed with pans and plates and bowls of roasted hazelnuts and lobster and oyster bisques and celery root soup with apples and Beluga caviar on toast points and creamed onions and roast goose with chestnut stung and caviar in puff pastry and vegetable tarts with tapenade, roast duck and roast rack of veal with shallots and gnocchi gratin and vegetable strudel and Waldorf salad and scallops and bruschetta with mascarpone and white truffles and green chili soufflé.