minnows in English

noun
1
a small freshwater Eurasian cyprinoid fish that typically forms large shoals.
There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows , perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
2
a person or organization of relatively small size, power, or influence.
As a result, Bulldog has only attracted 80,000 users to its broadband and telephony service - a minnow in the broadband market.

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1. Minnows and Carps (Cyprinidae) Minnows are an extremely diverse family with abundant representatives over most of the world

2. A Bacilliform virus was isolated from diseased fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

3. Plenty of minnows, but I throw them back in.

4. Darkness is stronger and swallows them like minnows.

5. These two companies are both minnows in the international market.

6. In Elbow Bower the mower winnowed winnowed the minnows away fro the powwow.

7. The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes.

8. Bullheads under 7″ are minnows and as such you can have 144

9. Bluegills during the winter consume zooplankton, minnows, shad, and aquatic insects as they find them

10. Barbs belong to the family Cyprinidae which is the same family to which minnows, carps and goldfish belong

11. The bridge on State Road 46 is another good spot to catch the fish, using minnows.

12. Foreign nonindigenous Carps and minnows (Cyprinidae) in the United States – A guide to their identification, distribution and biology

13. They appeared to have one law for the big boys and another for the minnows.

14. Newly hatched wood storks cry for food, sending parents to hunt for newly plentiful minnows.

15. These jawless proto-fish were mostly quite small, the size of large minnows, and they were heavily armoured.

16. Minnows — including shiners, Chubs, stonerollers, dace, and carp — are members of the minnow family, the Cyprinidae

17. The brass thought they could calm things down by throwing a few minnows to the sharks.

18. Crappie strike a variety of baits and lures, however, fishing with live minnows is the most common

19. Fish the northern side of Bird Island with jigs tipped with minnows at dawn for best results.

20. Baitfish ( plural Baitfishes or baitfish ) ( fishing) Small fish such as minnows that are used as bait to catch larger predatory fish

21. Catfishes are related to the characins, carp, and minnows (order Cypriniformes) and may be placed with them in the superorder Ostariophysi

22. Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes Family: Cyprinidae Minnows or carps Subfamily: No subfamily Genus: Barbodes (See list of species below)

23. Once a shoal of respectable dace are attracted in by your feeding, the sprats and minnows will be shouldered out.

24. Although minnows still catch great numbers of Crappie, the panfish are also susceptible to biting an array of artificial lures ranging from soft plastics to crankbaits.

25. According to him, "the Oba was practically the only triton among the minnows of royal hierarchs that stood up to the military rascality and Apachism that characterised the Abacha era.

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27. Well, there won't be any fish except for minnows, and the water will be pretty dirty, and all those kinds of things and full of mercury, etc., etc.

28. ) ITIS CoL WoRMS Cloffa Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > No subfamily Etymology: Barbodes: Latin, barbus = barbel + Greek, oides = similar to (Ref

29. ) ITIS CoL WoRMS Cloffa Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Cyprinidae (Minnows or carps) > No subfamily Etymology: Barbodes: Latin, barbus = barbel + Greek, oides = similar

30. Barbs are in the family Cyprinidae, the largest group of fishes extant, and the group which comprises the carps and minnows, and includes the common goldfish, rasboras, and danios

31. Olive barb, Puntius sarana (Hamilton, 1822) and silver barb, Barbodes gonionotus (Bleeker, 1850) are two important minnows which are tropical and small freshwater fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae

32. Wahoo aren’t really fussy and will eat just about anything that comes along, although big minnow lures like Laser Pro 190s and high speed lures like the Max 190 and Max 130 Bibless minnows will do the trick

33. , catfishes, minnows, and Carps), has no air sac adjacent to the labyrinth, but a possibly equivalent condition is achieved through a mechanical connection between the swim bladder and fluid chambers adjacent to the labyrinth

34. Craws" (9) Drop-Shot Baits (1) Grub (1) Jig Trailers (102) Minnows (1) Panfish Plastics (8) Worm (3) Color Alabama Craw (5) Avacado (1) Avocado (1) Bait Fish (1) Bama Bug

35. Part of the Sunfish family, Bluegill prefer warm water lakes, rivers, creeks, and ponds.Bluegill are opportunists when it comes to feeding and will commonly eat things like plankton, insects, worms, and small minnows.

36. Baitfish includes all forms of minnows; suckers, chubs, Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard Shad 8 inches or less taken from inland ponds, lakes or reservoirs; and all forms of darters, killifishes and stonecats (except those listed as threatened or endangered species).Legally taken gamefish may be used as bait

37. Furthermore, widely used Baitfishes, such as minnows, could be raised in such closed-loop fish farms instead of being massively extracted from the environment by wholesalers and stored in holding systems with a high mortality rate, which means netting even more Baitfishes to sell to recreational fishermen.

38. Baitfish includes all forms of minnows; suckers, chubs, Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard Shad 8 inches or less taken from inland ponds, lakes or reservoirs; and all forms of darters, killifishes and stonecats (except those listed as threatened or endangered species).Legally taken gamefish may be used as bait

39. Bullfrogs can jump up to 15 times their body length to catch anything from insects, crayfish, minnows, and other frogs (even other Bullfrogs) to small rodents, hatchling turtles, ducklings, bats, and snakes! During the winter, Bullfrogs burrow into the mud on the pond bottom and remain there until spring, absorbing oxygen stored in the mud.

40. Carmine shiners are slender, elongate minnows that can be distinguished from other minnows in Manitoba by the following features: 1) the origin of the dorsal fin is located behind a line drawn vertically from the insertion of the pelvic fins, 2) absence of a fleshy keel on the abdomen and of a strongly decurved lateral line, 3) a narrowly conical snout that is equal in length, or nearly so, to their eye diameter, 4) 5-7 short gill rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch, the longest being about as long as the width of its base, and 5) 4 slender, hooked, main row pharyngeal teeth (Stewart and Watkinson 2004; K.W. Stewart, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, pers. comm. 2005) (Figure 2).