1A small freshwater Eurasian cyprinoid fish that typically forms large shoals.

Phoxinus phoxinus, family Cyprinidae

1. 1.1 Any fish of the family Cyprinidae, the largest family of fishes, which includes carps, shiners, spinefins, squawfishes, chubs, daces, and stonerollers.
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   • Senator Domenici's rider would exempt activities harmful to the endangered silvery minnow from the Endangered Species Act.
   • And it's the last stronghold for 25 native fish species, including the rare shovelnose sturgeon, the sturgeon chub and the western silvery minnow.
   • Grass owls, Cape clawless & spotted neck otters, fish eagles, and dare I say it, two species of indigenous minnow, all thrive.
   • Another environmentalist land grab is underway in six states to protect the Topeka shiner, a minnow.
   • The House Energy and Water Appropriation bill is likely to condemn the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow to extinction.
   • Stream flows and key fish habitat for endangered species such as the Colorado pike minnow and razorback sucker will be significantly impacted.
   • In fact, bluntnose minnows are probably the most abundant freshwater fish in the eastern United States.
   • The Rio Grande silvery minnow was listed in 1994 as endangered because of extensive habitat loss due to water diversions.
   • As the name implies, mudminnows are small fish, often found over mud substrates; but they are not true minnows (family Cyprinidae).
   • A hook size of about number 6 is good for large lobworms and small deadbaits, such as gudgeon, minnow and small roach, which should be lip-hooked.
   • The ‘slab’ crappie that grabs a shiner minnow or small jig requires only a soft lift of a limber tip to set the thin-wire hook.
   • Our goal is to improve conditions for not only the Rio Grande silvery minnow but all of us.
   • The Rio Grande silvery minnow may only be four inches long, but its role in shaping New Mexico's future could be huge.
   • The Supreme Court has denied a petition that could have saved the endangered silvery minnow, the final survivor in a group of small native Rio Grande fishes, from extinction.
   • Tests carried out by researchers on the sunbleak and fathead minnow saw the two species of carp succumb to the parasite, which is an almost identical match to the Rosette Agent identified in America almost 20 years ago.
   • For such a pond, golden shiners, bluntnose minnows, or fathead minnows may be stocked to provide food for the bass.
   • Years of unsustainable water management have led to endangerment of numerous species, including the Southwestern willow flycatcher and the Rio Grande silvery minnow.
   • I promptly lost another minnow and Terpe boxed a 12-inch crappie.
   • Defenders also is trying to ensure the availability of reservoir water if needed to save the Rio Grande silvery minnow from extinction in the wild.
   • Economic activities such as grazing can be compatible with conservation of the spikedace and loach minnow provided that their habitat is maintained in good condition.
2. 1.2 Used in names of similar small freshwater fishes, e.g., mudminnow, topminnow.
   用于类似小淡水鱼名，如mudminnow，topminnow
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   • Although called a minnow, the topminnow is not really a minnow but belongs to the family Fundulidae.
   • The central mudminnow – not a true minnow – was first recorded in Maine in 1999 from the Orono–Old Town area.
3. 1.3Fishing An artificial lure imitating a minnow.
   〔渔〕仿米诺鱼诱饵
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   • A Clouser minnow is without doubt, in my opinion, probably the best pattern of all.
   • Jig or minnow, a thin-wire hook with a wide gap should be used.
   • Then there are the plastic Yo-Zuri Arc minnows which can be utterly fantastic on their day.
   • While trolling a Blue Phantom minnow in the tidal water, the Bishop of Stepney hooked a massive fish that dragged his little rowing boat up the Earn, then out again among the shipping of the Tay estuary.
   • I reckon if you have a selection of Clousers minnows and Deceivers in various colours and hook sizes, then you can probably catch most of the salt and many freshwater fish.
   • Another standout in the collection is the first patented jointed minnow lure made by the K & K Manufacturing Co. of Toledo.
   • He shouts for me to trade places with him while he rigs a spinning rod with a large plastic minnow, a hefty deep-sea plug bristling with multiple sets of treble hooks.
   • Kirkpatrick also mentioned a reliable late-day bite now on hard minnow imitations.
   • An inconsistent aspect of the ‘killer bait’ status of the thin minnow is that it does a poor job of imitating the nature forage of largemouth bass.
   • Bishop G. F. Browne, the then Bishop of Stepney, was trolling a blue phantom minnow at the top of the Tay estuary near the mouth of the Earn, hoping to intercept a running fish on the incoming tide.
   • He made a roll cast and one false cast, dropping the size 4 red eyed Clouser minnow in white and chartreuse four feet ahead of the fish, which quickly dived for this morsel of food.
   • I always take a big selection of Sea-Ducers Bend backs, Clouser minnows and Lefty Kreh Deceivers in sizes from 1's through to 4/0's in various colour combinations.
   • The lures being used are mostly soft plastics or minnows, getting down to 5-10 feet.
   • When chasing bass I would always want a few Clousers minnows in various colours especially chartreuse and white, some Lefty Kreh Deceivers, and a few sand eel patterns and poppers.
   • Fishing a chartreuse and white clouser minnow, I was soon catching ladyfish, but it was one of those baby tarpon I wanted - but I couldn't get one to take.
   • The teasing dip and flutter of a stop-and-go thin minnow pushes the right button for bass along the warming shorelines of spring.
   • All you need is a rod capable of casting a fast sinking eight or nine weight line fitted with a two foot leader of about 15 lb breaking strain and a selection of Clouser minnows in size 2's and 4's.

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