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minnow

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min·now  (mn)
n. pl. minnow or min·nows
1. Any of a large group of small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, widely used as live bait.
2. Any of various other small, often silver-colored fishes.
[Middle English meneu; see men-4 in Indo-European roots.]
minnow
Noun
pl -nows or -now a small slender European freshwater fish [Old English myne]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.minnowminnow - very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
Phoxinus phoxinus
cyprinid, cyprinid fish - soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
genus Phoxinus, Phoxinus - minnows
Translations

minnow [ˈmɪnəu] n → pececillo (de agua dulce)
minnow [ˈmɪnəu] n → vairon m
minnow [ˈmɪnəu] n → Elritze f
minnow [ˈmɪnəu] n → pesciolino d'acqua dolce


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It was indeed a changeful brook; here it would make a pool, dark and brooding and still, where we bent to look at our mirrored faces; then it grew communicative and gossiped shallowly over a broken pebble bed where there was a diamond dance of sunbeams and no troutling or minnow could glide through without being seen.
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He looked into every pool of water vainly, until, as the long twilight came on, he discovered a solitary fish, the size of a minnow, in such a pool.
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Lying flat on the logs, keeping perfectly quiet, waiting till the minnows came close, we would make swift passes with our hands.
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