Usually means: Small freshwater fish, various species.
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  1. minnow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. minnow: Merriam-Webster
  3. minnow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. minnow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. minnow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. minnow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Minnow, minnow: Wordnik
  8. minnow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. minnow: Wiktionary
  10. minnow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. minnow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. minnow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Minnow, minnow: Dictionary.com
  14. minnow: Rhymezone
  15. Minnow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. minnow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. minnow: FreeDictionary.org
  18. minnow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. minnow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. minnow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  21. minnow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. Minnow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Minnow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. minnow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

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  1. minnow: Encyclopedia

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  1. minnow: A Word A Day

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  1. minnow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. minnow: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any small fish.
noun:  The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
noun:  Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
noun:  (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
noun:  (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
noun:  (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
adjective:  (rare) Very small; tiny.
verb:  To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).
verb:  To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.

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