redfin
English
Etymology
From red + fin, having a red dorsal fin, especially males in the breeding season.
Noun
redfin (plural redfins)
- A common shiner, a small North American dace of species Luxilus cornutus.
- Synonym: roughhead
- A redfin shiner (Lythrurus umbratilis), of the central US.
- Any of certain species of genus Moxostoma of large suckers of North America, the males having red tail fins during mating season.
- Synonym: redhorse
Synonyms
Derived terms
- big-scaled redfin (Pseudaspius hakonensis)
- Eastern Cape redfin (Pseudobarbus afer)
- fiery redfin (Pseudobarbus phlegethon)
- giant redfin (Pseudobarbus skeltoni)
- Maluti redfin (Pseudobarbus quathlambae)
- Mongolian redfin (Chanodichthys mongolicus)
- Pacific redfin (Pseudaspius brandtii)
- redfin bully (Gobiomorphus huttoni)
- redfin perch (Perca fluviatilis)
- redfin pickerel (Esox americanus americanus)
- redfin robber (Brachyalestes affinis)
- redfin shark
- redfin shiner (Lythrurus umbratilis)
- redfin worm-eel (Scolecenchelys laticaudata)
- smallscale redfin (Pseudobarbus asper)
- Verlorenvlei redfin (Pseudobarbus verloreni)
References
- “redfin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “redfin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.