chub

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Now endangered, the chub was an important food source for Native Americans and the early pioneers and while no longer a food source, the native fish still has an important role as the native fish species are indicators of the health of the river.

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  1. noun Any of various freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae related to the carps and minnows, especially a Eurasian species, Leuciscus cephalus.
  2. noun Any of various North American fishes, such as a freshwater whitefish of the genus Coregonus or a marine fish of the genus Kyphosus.

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  • Among others, I was much pleased to find a cat-fish, taken in the lake by one of the island fishermen, and also a kind of chub, not found in Switzerland, and called by the fishermen here “Our Lady's Fish,” because it occurs only on the shore of an island where there is a convent, the nuns of which esteem it a great delicacy. —  Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
  • "Yes!" he shouted triumphantly after several frenzied minutes. —  Cyberbooks
  • Now endangered, the chub was an important food source for Native Americans and the early pioneers and while no longer a food source, the native fish still has an important role as the native fish species are indicators of the health of the river. —  thespectrum.com - Local News
  • Davis guessed that the chub was some sort of groundhog - while a good guess, the chub is a fish that is now usually found further downstream in the Colorado River, although they once might have lived as far up as Glenwood Canyon. —  Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • And double-gilled blue chub, I thought. —  To Say Nothing of the Dog
 

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  1. Middle English chubbe.

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  1. Assibilated form of cub, a lump, heap, mass, and of cob in similar senses (see cub, cob), from Middle English * cubbe in diminutive cubbel, a block to which an animal is tethered (cf. E. dial. kibble, a stick, Scots kibbling, a cudgel), from Icelandic kubbr, kumbr, a block, stump (Haldorsen), also in comp. trē-kubbr, -kumbr, a log (trē = E. tree),= Norwegian kubb, kubbe, a block, stump, log,= Swedish kubb, a block, log; perhaps connected with the verb, Icelandic Norwegian Swedish dial, kubba (later Middle English cobben: see cob, v.), hew, chop, lop. Cf. chump, chunk, club, clump, knob, knub, nub, stub, stump, words associated in form and sense, though of different origin. With chub as applied to a person or an animal, cf. cob as similarly applied.
 

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