Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, especially Leuciscus leuciscus of Eurasia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish of Europe, Leuciscus vulgaris or Squalius leuciscus, resembling and closely related to the roach and chub.
- noun A name of sundry similar or related fishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small European cyprinoid fish (
Leuciscus leuciscus , formerlySqualius leuciscus orLeuciscus vulgaris ); -- called alsodare .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in
England andWales . - noun US Any of various related small fish of the family
Cyprinidae that live infreshwater and are native toNorth America .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Besides cutthroat trout, the one other species of fish that is native to Yellowstone Lake and the Yellowstone River drainage above the two large falls in Yellowstone National Park is the longnose dace, which is rare.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Besides cutthroat trout, the one other species of fish that is native to Yellowstone Lake and the Yellowstone River drainage above the two large falls in Yellowstone National Park is the longnose dace, which is rare.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Besides cutthroat trout, the one other species of fish that is native to Yellowstone Lake and the Yellowstone River drainage above the two large falls in Yellowstone National Park is the longnose dace, which is rare.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Besides cutthroat trout, the one other species of fish that is native to Yellowstone Lake and the Yellowstone River drainage above the two large falls in Yellowstone National Park is the longnose dace, which is rare.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The dace is another fish which gives sport to the fly-fisherman.
Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker
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All submitted answers are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from cooner wrote 25 weeks 23 hours ago crickets, grasshoppers, hellgramites, and where legal small bait fish like dace work great
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All Answers from cooner wrote 25 weeks 23 hours ago crickets, grasshoppers, hellgramites, and where legal small bait fish like dace work great
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• I wasn't going to mussel in on the fish puns Letters, 19 January, but having salmoned up the courage I thought I'd throw the dace and see what happened.
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Other success stories include the river Nar in Norfolk, which now yields sea trout as well as dace, chub and brown trout, while birdwatchers can enjoy kingfisher and reed warblers as well as admiring 12 species of dragonfly and marsh orchids.
Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls 2011
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The agency boosted fish populations with more than half a million farmed fish, including roach, barbell, tench, dace and chub.
Freshwater wildlife thrives in cleanest rivers since Industrial Revolution 2010
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