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Definition of powan

Powan
Powan Pow"an, Powen Pow"en, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.
powan
Gwiniad Gwin"i*ad (gw[i^]n"[i^]*[a^]d), n. [W. gwyniad a whiting, the name of various fishes, fr. gwyn white.] (Zool.) A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly. [Written also gwyniad, guiniad, gurniad.]

Meaning of powan from wikipedia

- The powan (Coregonus clupeoides) is a kind of freshwater whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck. It has been successfully...
- Along with Loch Lomond, it is the only naturally occurring habitat of the powan (fish), although it is closely related to the gwyniad and other similar...
- field mouse St. Kilda house mouse (extinct) Birds Fair Isle wren Scottish crossbill Shetland wren St. Kilda wren Fish Haddy charr Orkney charr Powan...
- species. FishBase and the IUCN list it as a distinct species, C. pennantii. Powan Sc****y Vendace Freyhof, J.; Kottelat, M. (2008). "Coregonus pennantii"...
- (else it grows eastwards through Europe and Asia all the way to ****an). Powan are one of the commonest fish species in the loch, which has more species...
- lavaretus, or common whitefish, as with the Welsh gwyniad and Scottish powan. This is supported by morphological evidence, as a review was unable to...
- the huge ruffe po****tion on the endemic whitefish po****tion known as powan (Coregonus lavaretus) as ruffe prey on their eggs. Ruffe became the prin****l...
- (Anguilla anguilla) Gobio gobio (gudgeon) Common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) Powan (Coregonus clupeoides) Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) Three-spined stickleback...
- (Mitchill, 1818) (lake whitefish) Coregonus clupeoides Lacépède, 1803 (powan) Coregonus confusus Fatio, 1885 Coregonus danneri C. C. Vogt, 1908 Coregonus...
- suggested by others to be locally restricted species (such as the British powan and the gwyniad or the Alpine gravenche, as well as distinct intralacustrine...