Colorado pikeminnow

noun

The freshwater fish Ptychocheilus lucius, a large ray-finned predatory leuciscid native to the Colorado River Basin of the southwestern United States and Mexico, formerly an important food fish.

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nounColorado pikeminnow (plural Colorado pikeminnows)

plural Colorado pikeminnows

  1. The freshwater fish Ptychocheilus lucius, a large ray-finned predatory leuciscid native to the Colorado River Basin of the southwestern United States and Mexico, formerly an important food fish.
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