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chub
Pronunciation: (chub), [key]—
n.,
—pl. (esp. collectively) chub, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) chubs.
1. a common freshwater fish,
Leuciscus cephalus, of European waters, having a thick, fusiform body.
2. any of various related fishes.
3. any of several unrelated American fishes, esp. the tautog and whitefishes of the genus
Coregonus, of the Great Lakes.
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