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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

POWAN; POWEN

POWAN; POWEN Pow "an, Pow "en, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus ); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

New American Oxford Dictionary

powan

powan |ˈpəʊwən | ▶noun a widely distributed freshwater whitefish of lakes and rivers in northern Eurasia, especially one of a variety occurring only in two Scottish lochs. ●Coregonus lavaretus, family Salmonidae. See also gwyniad, schelly . ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: Scots variant of pollan .

Oxford Dictionary

powan

powan |ˈpəʊwən | ▶noun a widely distributed freshwater whitefish of lakes and rivers in northern Eurasia, especially one of a variety occurring only in two Scottish lochs. ●Coregonus lavaretus, family Salmonidae. See also gwyniad, schelly . ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: Scots variant of pollan .