Very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
(Noun)
Synonyms:
Phoxinus phoxinus
Minnow Sentence Examples
The shark waits in the center of the pool, but is not allowed to enter the minnow pond.
The ciliated stage is only capable of free life for five or six hours, and if at the end of that time it has not encountered and attached itself to a minnow, it dies.
In America the name bream is commonly given to the golden shiner minnow (Abramis chrysoleucus), to the pumpkin-seed sunfish (Eupomotis gibbosus), and to some kinds of porgy (Sparidae).
Except the Minnow group, north of Nossi-be, the rest are merely rocky islets, chiefly of coral.
From the tiny minnow to the huge leviathan, do not all creatures that swim in the waters laud and magnify His great Name?