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Terms in Icelandic 261-270 of 806

hornsíli

[Icelandic]

Three-spined stickleback

hörpudiskur

[Icelandic]

Scallop. These are shellfish with white meats and pink corals, often cooked in their shells with the corals and have sweet, succulent meat if properly cooked. Generally speaking, if not other comment is made, these will be great or pilgrim scallops.

hrefna

[Icelandic]

A small whalebone whale; also called the piked whale or lesser rorqual.

hreidðeakjõt

[Icelandic]

Venison. Fallow deer.

hreindýr

[Icelandic]

Reindeer. An animal of the deer kind having large branching or palmated antlers, formerly common in Central Europe, but now confined to sub-arctic regions, where it is used for drawing sledges, and is kept in large herds for the sake of the milk, flesh, and hides.

hreindýrakjöt

[Icelandic]

Reindeer meat. The reindeer is an animal of the deer kind having large branching or palmated antlers, formerly common in Central Europe, but now confined to sub-arctic regions, where it is used for drawing sledges, and is kept in large herds for the sake of the milk, flesh, and hides.

hreisturglæsir

[Icelandic]

Bleak. A small, elongated, white-fleshed fish, abundant in lakes and quiet waterways. Its scales, which are thin and silvery, come away easily. The flesh of the pond bleak is of poor quality, but that of the river variety is fairly good, although it is full of little bones. It is about 15 cm (6 inches) long and invariably served fried.

hreðka

[Icelandic]

Radish

hringdúfa

[Icelandic]

Woodpigeon

hrís

/rees/
[Icelandic]

Rice