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Definition of Squawfish
1. Noun. A cyprinid fish of the genus ''Ptychocheilus'', a voracious predator on small trout and salmon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squawfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Squawfish
Literary usage of Squawfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and by Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan (1909)
"The one called squawfish has the long slim body and slim jaws of a pike; although
like other ... In the Columbia is another species, the Oregon squawfish. ..."
2. Warmwater Fisheries: Symposium I (1991) edited by James L. Cooper, R. H. Hamre (1999)
"Colorado squawfish migrations have been observed for a hundred years, and travels
of hundreds of kilometers have been recently documented (Tyus 1990). ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"During the spring and early summer the squawfish run out into the streams, where
they seem to prefer to spawn, but in the fall and winter the streams ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"of squawfish (Ptychocheilus Indus in the Colorado, Ptychocheilus grandis in the
Sacramento, and Ptychocheilus oregonensis in the Columbia) reach a length of ..."
5. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Chubs of the Pacific Slope.—In the Western waters are numerous genera, some of
the species reaching a large size. The species FIG. 131.—The squawfish ..."
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