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- noun Plural form of
redd . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
redd .
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Examples
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Most reproduce in cold, flowing water by creating excavations in the gravel called redds.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Most reproduce in cold, flowing water by creating excavations in the gravel called redds.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Most reproduce in cold, flowing water by creating excavations in the gravel called redds.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Most reproduce in cold, flowing water by creating excavations in the gravel called redds.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The action included full fish courtship activity with bright red males and fights over territory (spawning areas called redds) and the actual "act" where a male released its milt when a large female deposited its eggs.
SFGate: Top News Stories Tom Stienstra 2010
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Only a few coho were spotted and only 20 egg nests, called redds, were counted in the Lagunitas Creek watershed's two main tributaries during the annual winter survey of fish, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.
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Then there was the taking of salmon from the "redds" as they spawned, of all methods of capture the least allied to "sport," for the fish then were soft and flabby, and almost useless as food.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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In my submitted version of the column, I mentioned the "redds" of brown trout, without any explanation of just what a redd is.
Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont 2009
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"We were expecting 70 redds, which is still a 63 percent decline.
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Search the edges of grassbeds for openings with spawning redds.
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