Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gray-brown sucker (Chasmistes cujus) found only in Nevada.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These include the bonytail chub, humpback chub, Sonora chub, Chihuahua chub, beautiful shiner, Pecos bluntnose shiner, razorback sucker, Colorado squawfish, Pyramid Lake cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.
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Sacramento sucker, Catostomus occidentalis mountain sucker, Catostomus platyrhynchus shortnose sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris cui-ui sucker, Chasmistes cujus
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The Native American name of the Pyramid Lake Paiute people was kuyui dokado, the cui-ui eaters, not the trout eaters.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Sacramento sucker, Catostomus occidentalis mountain sucker, Catostomus platyrhynchus shortnose sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris cui-ui sucker, Chasmistes cujus
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Living species of Chasmistes today are found only in Utah Lake (the June sucker, now partially hybridized with the Utah sucker), Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon (the shortnose sucker), and Pyramid Lake, Nevada, of the Lahontan basin (the cui-ui sucker).
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Sacramento sucker, Catostomus occidentalis mountain sucker, Catostomus platyrhynchus shortnose sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris cui-ui sucker, Chasmistes cujus
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The Native American name of the Pyramid Lake Paiute people was kuyui dokado, the cui-ui eaters, not the trout eaters.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The Native American name of the Pyramid Lake Paiute people was kuyui dokado, the cui-ui eaters, not the trout eaters.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Living species of Chasmistes today are found only in Utah Lake (the June sucker, now partially hybridized with the Utah sucker), Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon (the shortnose sucker), and Pyramid Lake, Nevada, of the Lahontan basin (the cui-ui sucker).
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Living species of Chasmistes today are found only in Utah Lake (the June sucker, now partially hybridized with the Utah sucker), Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon (the shortnose sucker), and Pyramid Lake, Nevada, of the Lahontan basin (the cui-ui sucker).
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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