Chub
n.
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidæ 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.
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