notropis atherinoides

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   small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster

   Synonymsemerald shiner

   Broadershiner

Questions about notropis atherinoides

What does notropis atherinoides mean?

notropis atherinoides means "small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster".

What is another word for notropis atherinoides?

Close synonyms include emerald shiner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is notropis atherinoides a common word?

notropis atherinoides is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.