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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A European freshwater fish (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) related to the carp and having a brownish body and red fins.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Another spelling of rud.
  2. n. The redeye, a cyprinoid fish of Europe, Leuciscus or Scardinius erythrophthalmus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A species of freshwater game fish (Scardinius erythropthalmus).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. European freshwater fish resembling the roach

Etymologies

  1. Probably from rud, red; see ruddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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