MINNOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minnow mean? 

• MINNOW (noun)
  The noun MINNOW has 1 sense:

1. very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams

  Familiarity information: MINNOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINNOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

minnow; Phoxinus phoxinus

Hypernyms ("minnow" is a kind of...):

cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)

Holonyms ("minnow" is a member of...):

genus Phoxinus; Phoxinus (minnows)

 Context examples 

Stooping over in quest of minnows, he jerked his head back as though he had been stung.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He looked into every pool of water vainly, until, as the long twilight came on, he discovered a solitary fish, the size of a minnow, in such a pool.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In the evening he caught three more minnows, eating two and saving the third for breakfast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In the middle of the day he found two minnows in a large pool.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There were three minnows in the pool, which was too large to drain; and after several ineffectual attempts to catch them in the tin bucket he forbore.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was because it refused to die that he still ate muskeg berries and minnows, drank his hot water, and kept a wary eye on the sick wolf.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)