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chub
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chub  (chb)
n. pl. chub or chubs
1. Any of various freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae related to the carps and minnows, especially a Eurasian species, Leuciscus cephalus.
2. Any of various North American fishes, such as a freshwater whitefish of the genus Coregonus or a marine fish of the genus Kyphosus.

[Middle English chubbe.]

chub [tʃʌb]
n pl chub, chubs
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Leuciscus (or Squalius) cephalus, having a cylindrical dark greenish body
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various North American fishes, esp certain whitefishes and minnows
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ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.chubchub - European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body
cyprinid, cyprinid fish - soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
genus Leuciscus, Leuciscus - a genus of fish including: dace, chub
Translations
chub [tʃʌb] N (chub or chubs (pl)) → cacho m
chub
n pl <-> → Döbel m, → Aitel m
chub [tʃʌb] ncavedano
chub [tʃʌb] ncavedano


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His father owned a delicatessen and a smokehouse in Chicago, and as a kid, Kahan would occasionally help out, taking the chubs from their brine bath and into the smokehouse.
We had frogs, turtles, muskrats, minks, Kentucky spotted bass, channel cat fish, big mouth bass, mud cat, minnows, creek chubs that we used for bait," recalls Chapman, an avid hunter and fisherman.
Trees planted along rivers prove a boon for reducing pollution into precious waterways, helping tundra swans, Appalachian elktoe mussels, and spotfin chubs, along with other fish and waterfowl.
 
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