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  1. cyprinid
  2. cyprinid fish

What Google Knows

Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the families Cyprinidae and Leuciscidae. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens. Smaller fish in the subfamily Leusciscidae are considered by anglers to be "true" minnows.

Related Definition

  1. minnow:

    n Any small fish.

    n The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.

    n Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.

    n (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).

    n (Britain, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).

    n (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

    n (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.

    adj (rare) Very small; tiny.

    v To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).

    v To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.


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