plural chub or chubs
1
: any of numerous freshwater cyprinid fishes (as of the genera Gila and Nocomis)
2
: any of several marine or freshwater fishes (such as the tautog) that are not cyprinids
Examples of chub in a Sentence
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The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources recently discovered Utah chub in a body of water where the fish are not naturally present, meaning someone introduced them there, the agency said April 15 on Facebook.
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Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2024
In Iowa, the majority of the deceased fish were minnows, shiners, dace, or chub, though thousands of channel catfish and at least 264 flatheads were killed, too, along with carp and sunfish.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2024
Gila chub are small minnows historically found in Arizona and New Mexico and were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2005.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
Mackinaws feed almost exclusively on smaller fish like perch, chubs, suckers and other trout.
—Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
Today, however, four of those fish—the humpback chub, the Colorado pikeminnow, the razorback sucker, and the bonytail—are federally listed as threatened or endangered.
—WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
Lake Powell commandeered the Colorado’s payloads of silt and stymied natural floods, erasing channels and backwaters where chubs and suckers once spawned and reared.
—WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
Now, biologists realized, neither the canyon nor its chub were safe.
—WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
Grand Canyon National Park has seen a resurgence of humpback chubs pre-bass invasion, enough that they were downgraded from endangered to threatened.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2024
In Iowa, the majority of the deceased fish were minnows, shiners, dace, or chub, though thousands of channel catfish and at least 264 flatheads were killed, too, along with carp and sunfish.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2024
Gila chub are small minnows historically found in Arizona and New Mexico and were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2005.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
Mackinaws feed almost exclusively on smaller fish like perch, chubs, suckers and other trout.
—Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
Today, however, four of those fish—the humpback chub, the Colorado pikeminnow, the razorback sucker, and the bonytail—are federally listed as threatened or endangered.
—WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
Lake Powell commandeered the Colorado’s payloads of silt and stymied natural floods, erasing channels and backwaters where chubs and suckers once spawned and reared.
—WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
Now, biologists realized, neither the canyon nor its chub were safe.
—WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
Grand Canyon National Park has seen a resurgence of humpback chubs pre-bass invasion, enough that they were downgraded from endangered to threatened.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
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“Chub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chub. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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