Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Polynemidae, having threadlike rays extending from the lower part of the pectoral fin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any fish of the genus Polynemus: so called from the long pectoral filaments. See cut under
Polynemus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
perciform fish of the family Polynemidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
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Examples
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Nor is it merely the dramatic decline of other fish, including longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bass, green sturgeon and Central Valley
Sean Hannity Steals From Hollywood In His Mockumentary, "The Valley Hope Forgot" 2009
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Nor is it merely the dramatic decline of other fish, including longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bass, green sturgeon and Central Valley
David Fiderer: Sean Hannity Steals From Hollywood In His Mockumentary, "The Valley Hope Forgot" 2009
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Alewives in northern lakes and threadfin shad in southern lakes areboth short, deep-bodied baitfish — and big-time bass food — that a Shad Rapimitates perfectly.
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The demersal communities include croakers and the threadfin in nearshore waters, and sea bream and driftfish in deeper waters.
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As the waters cool in early winter, vast schools of threadfin shad start to bunch up while slowing their open-water activity.
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Both crayfish and threadfin shad are common forage for bass here, which makes both diminutive jigs and shad-imitating crankbaits logical choices.
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Nine times out of 10 when he finds gannets, pelicans, or terns diving on bay anchovies, pogies, or threadfin herring, he also finds a school of redfish feasting on the same bait.
Flyfishing for Redfish on the Flats from Texas to Florida 2005
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When the first cold breath of winter arrived, white bass that spent most of the year in the inland sea that is 180,000-acre Toledo Bend, roaming the open water in large schools, chasing, attacking and devouring threadfin shad, began moving up the lake.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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At those times the crabs are prey to moi (Pacific threadfin), shoreline fish with a taste for ghost crabs.
Starbulletin Headlines Susan Scott 2010
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At those times the crabs are prey to moi (Pacific threadfin), shoreline fish with a taste for ghost crabs.
Starbulletin Headlines Susan Scott 2010
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