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Noun1.redhorse - North American sucker with reddish finsredhorse - North American sucker with reddish fins
sucker - mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
genus Maxostoma, Maxostoma - a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae


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Engineers consistently work in these complex environments, operating with Air Force REDHORSE squadrons, Navy Seabee units, the National Geospatial Agency, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), and other foreign engineer forces and civilian agencies to accomplish missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the globe.
There are seven species of redhorse suckers, for example, that fisheries biologists often either misidentify or cannot identify.
So, mostly, our fishing trip involved leech handling, disagreeing about the identity of wood ticks (spiders she insisted, and in a way she was right because they are eight-legged arthropods) and losing crawlers to bait-stealing redhorse, a small member of the sucker family that likely accounts for the muskies growing so large in this river.
 
 
 
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