Definition of Leuciscus

1. Noun. A genus of fish including: dace, chub.

Exact synonyms: Genus Leuciscus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Cyprinidae, Family Cyprinidae
Member holonyms: Dace, Leuciscus Leuciscus, Chub, Leuciscus Cephalus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leuciscus

Lettish
Letts
Letty
Letzeburgesh
Leu
Leu enkephalin
Leucadendron argenteum
Leucaena
Leucaena glauca
Leucaena leucocephala
Leucanthemum
Leucanthemum lacustre
Leucanthemum maximum
Leucanthemum superbum
Leucanthemum vulgare
Leuciscus (current term)
Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus leuciscus
Leucocytozoon
Leucocytozoon marchouxi
Leucocytozoon sabrazesi
Leucocytozoon simondi
Leucocytozoon smithi
Leucogenes
Leucogenes leontopodium
Leuconostoc mesenteroides
Leucothoe editorum
Leucothoe fontanesiana
Leucothoe racemosa
Leuctra

Literary usage of Leuciscus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1868)
"Pharyngeal teeth in a single or double series. 56. Leuciscus. ... Leuciscus, sp., Klein, Cuvier, Cn». # Vol. Leuciscus et Phoxinus, Agassiz. ..."

2. Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852 by Randolph Barnes Marcy, George Brinton McClellan (1854)
"1, represents Leuciscus vigilax, size of life. Fig. 2. A dorsal scale. Fig. 3. ... 4. Abdominal scale. Figs. 2—4 are enlarged twelve times. 4. Leuciscus ..."

3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"River St. John, the Miramichi at Boiestown, in the Hammond Hiver and in every river and stream in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (Perley 1852, as Leuciscus ..."

4. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"... leuciscus. Di Ai The height of the body is three times in the total length, the length of the head 44. No spines above the orbit. ..."

5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"... the New World forms somewhat exceeding in numbers those of the Old. Among the European representatives of the genus, the roach (Leuciscus rutilus), ..."

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