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Blunt-nosed shiner

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)


   (c) (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small
       freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to
       {Notropis}, or {Minnilus}, and allied genera; as the
       redfin ({Notropis megalops}), and the golden shiner
       ({Notemigonus chrysoleucus}) of the Eastern United
       States; also loosely applied to various other silvery
       fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden,
       moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
   (d) (Zo["o]l.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.

   {Blunt-nosed shiner} (Zo["o]l.), the silver moonfish.
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