Fishes
- Any one of a number of ray-finned fishes in several families and genera. In Europe, the term "chub" usually refers to the European chub (Squalius cephalus).
Other fishes called "chubs" are:
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Famous quotes containing the word fishes:
“The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“While he hears in every spring
How the birds do chirp and sing:
Or before the hounds in cry
See the hare go stealing by:
Or along the shallow brook,
Angling with a baited hook,
See the fishes leap and play
In a blessed sunny day:”
—Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)