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Definition: STEELHEAD |
STEELHEADNoun1. The ruddy duck. 2. A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. |
Date "STEELHEAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Crosswords: STEELHEAD |
| English words defined with "STEELHEAD": Hardhead. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STEELHEAD": migratory fish. (references) |
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![]() | Steelhead trout. In: "The Fishes of Alaska." Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVI, 1906. P. 360, Plate XXXVIII. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Panther Creek, an image of the stream that was affected by Blackbird Mine. The creek had very good habitat but for the mine discharge. By 1960 steelhead trout and chinook salmon were extirpated from the river due to the contaminants released at Blackbird Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | The typical unaltered pond/slough system that existed before the restoration. the restoration connected a series of ponds to allow fish to pass into and out of their spawning habitat. The image above is a good example of prime juvenile salmon and steelhead trout rearing habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Three students pose with a steelhead trout at their fish hatchery. The students raised nearly over a half a million dollars to construct a fish hatchery. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Jim Bybee and Rick Wantuck of NOAA examine small steelhead trout in the creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | Scenic view of Steelhead Falls. Credit: Steve Lent. | |
Rogue River - Hellgate Recreation Area, catching steelhead. Credit: Unknown. | Rim rock view of Steelhead Falls. OR 5-14. Credit: Unknown. | ||
Salmon or Steelhead jumping up falls. Credit: Telford. | ![]() | Robert Baade and Steelhead Trout in Southeast Alaska. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "STEELHEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 虹鳟. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | regnbueørred (rainbow trout, steelhead trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | regenboogforel (rainbow trout, steelhead trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kirjolohi (rainbow trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | truite arc-en-ciel (steelhead trout), truite américaine (steelhead trout), \TRR (steelhead trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stahlkopfforelle (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), Teichforelle (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), Regenbogenforelle (rainbow trout), Purpurforelle (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), Amerikanische Forelle (rainbow trout, steelhead trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιριδίζουσα πέστροφα (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), πέστροφα (trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trota iridea (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), trota arcobaleno (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), trota americana (rainbow trout, steelhead trout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eelheadstay truta arco-íris (rainbow trout, steelhead trout). (various references) trucha arco-iris (rainbow trout, steelhead trout), trucha arco iris (rainbow trout, steelhead trout). (various references) regnbåge (iris, rainbow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), Salmo gairdneri, Salmo irideus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STEELHEAD": steelheads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STEELHEAD" (pronounced stē"lhe'd) |
| 4 | -l h e' d | bullhead, trailhead, wellhead. |
| 3 | -h e' d | Airhead, arrowhead, beachhead, bridgehead, bulkhead, copperhead, Deadhead, dragonhead, drumhead, egghead, figurehead, flathead, Godhead, hardhead, letterhead, Loggerhead, masthead, redhead, skinhead, spearhead, thickhead, warhead, Whitehead. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: teaseled. | |
-2 letters: daleths, delates, deletes, headset, leashed, seethed, sheeted, sleeted, steeled. | |
-3 letters: daleth, deaths, delate, delete, deltas, desalt, elated, elates, eldest, halest, halted, haslet, hasted, healed, heated, heeled, lashed, lasted, lathed, lathes, leased, lethes, salted, sealed, seated, sedate, seeled, seethe, shaled, shelta, slated, staled, stelae, teased, teasel. | |
-4 letters: aedes, ashed, dahls, dales, dates, deals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-h-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: steelheads. | |
+2 letters: decathletes, letterheads. | |
+4 letters: acetaldehydes, deathlessness, reestablished. | |
+5 letters: encephalitides, preestablished. | |
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