Minnow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of a large group of small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, widely used as live bait.
  • n. Any of various other small, often silver-colored fishes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small freshwater fish of the carp family.
  • n. More generally, any small fish.
  • n. A low-level team, in comparison to their opponents.
  • v. to fish minnows
  • v. to fish (especially trout) using a minnow as bait
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus lævis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
  • n. Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The smallest of the British cyprinoid fishes, Phoxinus aphya or lævis.
  • n. In the United States, one of many different fishes of small size,
  • n. A name sometimes given to a very small fish of New Zealand, Galaxias attenuatus, of the family Galaxidæ. Also called whitebait. The Maori name is inanga.
  • n. See leatherside.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
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    Variant
    minim    minny    killifish    mummichog   
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    minnower   
    Rhyme
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    minow   
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