minnow

Any of a large group of small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, widely used as live bait.

Any of various other small, often silver-colored fishes.

A name sometimes given to a very small fish of New Zealand, Galaxias attenuatus, of the family Galaxidæ. Also called whitebait. The Maori name is inanga.

See leatherside.

The smallest of the British cyprinoid fishes, Phoxinus aphya or lævis.

In the United States, one of many different fishes of small size,

A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus lævis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; — called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.

Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.

A small freshwater fish of the carp family.

More generally, any small fish.