Chub

[tʃʌb]

Definition

(noun.) European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.

Typed by Bush--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.

Edited by Donnie

Definition

n. a small fat river-fish.—adjs. Chubbed Chub′by short and thick plump; Chub′-faced plump-faced.—n. Chub′biness.

Editor: Rodney