(n.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
(n.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(2) Forty-thousand fans had packed the Zhuque Stadium in the northern city of Xi’an to see China, ranked 78th in the world by Fifa, take on Syria , a footballing minnow ranked 114th, just ahead of Turkmenistan, Lithuania, Palestine and North Korea.
(3) Unfortunately, it’s only a £20m minnow, so we took a look at the big funds instead.
(4) Fat head minnows, 45-days old, were continuously exposed to DDT using continuous water flow and constant temperature conditions.
(5) Synthesis and maturation of frog virus 3 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in BHK cells and selected variants, in chick fibroblasts, and in minnow cells were compared.
(6) Three simulated marsh systems were constructed, containing sediment, marsh plants, oysters, blue crabs, fiddler crabs, and two species of top minnows.
(7) The toxicity of natural pyrethrins and five pyrethroids was determined with coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri), fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), channel catfish (Icatlurus punctatus), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and yellow perch (Perca flavescens).
(8) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
(9) Sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) were least affected by mirex.
(10) But in soccer, their team has never before been larger than a minnow.
(11) The viral susceptibility range of a poikilothermic cell line derived from the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) (FHM) to infection by a number of homoiothermic viruses representing most of the presently recognized viral groups and a member of the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma-trachoma group of agents was studied.
(12) Putative cholinergic neurons in the photosensory pineal organ of a cyprinid teleost, the European minnow, were studied by use of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) immunocytochemistry and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) histochemistry.
(13) From central European minnows such as Slovakia to Baltic eurozone republics such as Latvia and Lithuania , hard-pressed pensioners and workers earning barely €500 a month are at a loss as to why Greece should qualify for more largesse.
(14) Now Colombia look like another South American minnow gagging to give Brazil a good run for their money.
(15) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
(16) However, there was a better correlation between the in vitro cytotoxicity data for the BF-2 cell culture and LC50 data for bluegill sunfish than between similar data for the FHM cell line and fathead minnows.
(17) Following administration by gavage [75Se]selenate and [75Se]selenite were absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) at 94 and 80% efficiency, respectively.
(18) If battle lines were not already drawn jaggedly between football’s superpowers (and its many minnows who share equal voting rights) after the damning US indictment of 18 football executives on 47 corruption charges, they certainly are now.
(19) It isn't just the minnows at the wrong end of the high street who are now on the wrong end of history.
(20) The sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus) was continuously exposed for 23 wk to the organochlorine insecticide endrin, from the embryonic state through hatching until adulthood and spawing.
Minow
Definition:
(n.) See Minnow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some students and staff have presented a list of demands,” Minow wrote.
(2) Nell Minow, board member at corporate governance analyst GMI Ratings, called the criminal convictions “a small step forward”.
(3) However, the cardiotoxicity of adriamycin places a limit on the total dose that may be given [Minow, R. A., Banjamin, R.S., & Gottlieb, J.
(4) Keaton Nichols, Harvard Law student The school’s dean, Martha Minow, sent students an email after these meetings that vaguely pledged support for “building a truly diverse community”, but effectively suggested that the students agitating for change were a just a small portion of the law school community.
(5) Nell Minow, co-founder of corporate GMI Ratings, said the JP Morgan fiasco was a prime example of why the Volcker rule should be tightened up, but she doubted Washington had the political will to act.