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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.…

A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.

prinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.

ish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.

A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.

A minnow.

A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]

A minnow.

See Minnow.

clapper rail. -- Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [Slang] - - Mud minnow (Zoöl.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobranchus. -- Mud…

The mud minnow.

odont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]

A minnow. See Pink, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] Walton.

The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.] Bunch pink is Dianthus barbatus. -- China, or Indian, pink. See under China. -- Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived. -- Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye. -- Meadow pink is applied to D…

lins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.

Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.