Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stout-bodied killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) of coastal Atlantic waters from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida, valued especially as bait.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also
minnow .
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- noun A
hardy killifish , Fundulus heteroclitus, found inbrackish andcoastal waters of theUnited States andCanada .
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- noun silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States
Etymologies
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Examples
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Atlantic silverside, Atlantic menhaden, mummichog, striped killifish, and winter flounder comprised more than 92 percent of the sample.
Kyle Rabin: A View to a (Fish) Kill: A Firsthand Perspective on Fish-Killing Cooling Systems Kyle Rabin 2011
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Atlantic silverside, Atlantic menhaden, mummichog, striped killifish, and winter flounder comprised more than 92 percent of the sample.
Kyle Rabin: A View to a (Fish) Kill: A Firsthand Perspective on Fish-Killing Cooling Systems Kyle Rabin 2011
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Other species include banded killfish, mummichog, tidewater silverside, bay anchovy, tesselated darter and spottail shiner.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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Fish species occurring in the numerous tidal creeks adjacent to the component include mummichog, white perch, spot and menhaden.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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The most common of these have been the American eel, alewife, common mummichog, Atlantic silverside, and three sticklebacks (fourspine, threespine, and ninespine).
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MacKinnon A-M, Boston L, Souter B, Cook-Versloot M, et al. (2007) Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus from mummichog, stickleback, striped bass and brown trout in eastern Canada.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark B. Bain et al. 2010
sionnach commented on the word mummichog
Is there a daddichog?
December 17, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word mummichog
What about babichog?
December 17, 2007
bilby commented on the word mummichog
Move over, smurfs!
December 17, 2007
sionnach commented on the word mummichog
It's like Goldilocks and the three chogs!
September 21, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word mummichog
It's a fish.
January 2, 2012