Found 2 items, similar to Leuciscus leuciscus.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Leuciscus leuciscus
Leuciscus leuciscus
n : small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green
body [syn:
dace]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Leuciscus leuciscus
Leuciscus
\Leuciscus\ prop. n.
A genus of freshwater fishes including the dace (
Leuciscus leuciscus
).
Syn: genus
Leuciscus.
[WordNet 1.5]
Dace
\Dace\ (d[=a]s), n. [Written also dare, dart, fr. F. dard
dase, dart, of German origin. Dace is for an older darce, fr.
an OF. nom. darz. See
Dart a javelin.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small European cyprinoid fish (
Leuciscus leuciscus,
formerly
Squalius leuciscus or
Leuciscus vulgaris); --
called also
dare.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: In America the name is given to several related fishes
of the genera
Squalius,
Minnilus, etc. The
black-nosed dace is
Rhinichthys atronasus the horned
dace is
Semotilus corporalis. For red dace, see
Redfin.
[1913 Webster]