Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stout-bodied killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) of the Atlantic coast south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, valued especially as bait.
Wiktionary
- n. A hardy killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found in brackish and coastal waters of the United States and Canada.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also
minnow .
WordNet 3.0
- n. silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States
Etymologies
- From Narragansett moamitteaug. (Wiktionary)
- Narragansett moamitteaūg. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Atlantic silverside, Atlantic menhaden, mummichog, striped killifish, and winter flounder comprised more than 92 percent of the sample.”
“Other species include banded killfish, mummichog, tidewater silverside, bay anchovy, tesselated darter and spottail shiner.”
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland
“Fish species occurring in the numerous tidal creeks adjacent to the component include mummichog, white perch, spot and menhaden.”
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland
“The most common of these have been the American eel, alewife, common mummichog, Atlantic silverside, and three sticklebacks (fourspine, threespine, and ninespine).”
“MacKinnon A-M, Boston L, Souter B, Cook-Versloot M, et al. (2007) Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus from mummichog, stickleback, striped bass and brown trout in eastern Canada.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mummichog’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
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Silver
Silvery words. (Mithril doesn't count.)
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• De rerum natura
What is this list about?
Interesting words in nature and natural science (in any language!).
What kind of words am I supposed to add?
You can add species names that you lov...lagerstätte, parthenogenesis, bushbaby, lepidoptera, dinoflagellate, pupation, chrysalis, ephemeroptera, deinococcus radio..., homoplasy, sciophilous, syncytium and 218 more...
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It's a Fish
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From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
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Critters
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Best beasts
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M or N?
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CorpulentSesquipedalian's list
Words I a certain partiality/predilection/enthusiasm/zest for.
mummichog, twelfth, boxplot, lucid, taciturn, sesquipedalian, engulfed, pharoah, pharisee, maniacal, jib, juxtapose and 12 more...
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A Fish by any other Name...
...would Smell as Sweet.
pike, kipper, salmon, minnow, eel, gurnard, killifish, mummichog, tuna, honeycomb cowfish, barreleye fish, squirrel fish
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mummichog.
hernesheir It's a fish. Jan 2, 2012
sionnach It's like Goldilocks and the three chogs! Sep 21, 2009
bilby Move over, smurfs! Dec 17, 2007
sonofgroucho What about babichog? Dec 17, 2007
sionnach Is there a daddichog? Dec 17, 2007