chub
pronunciation
How to pronounce chub in British English:
UK [tʃʌb]
How to pronounce chub in American English:
US [tʃʌb]
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- Noun:
- European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body
Word Origin
- chub (n.)
- type of river fish, mid-15c., chubbe, of unknown origin. In Europe, a kind of carp; in U.S., the black bass.
Example
- 1. Study on improving the quality of chub mackerel food .
- 2. But trout and chub co-existed untilthe glen canyon dam was built , so something else is going on .
- 3. Study on the reasonable utilization of chub mackerel in the east china sea .
- 4. Effect of yam addition amount on quality of chub meat paste .
- 5. At first sight , itlooked as if the reason was that the chub were being eaten by trout introducedfor sport fishing in the mid-20th century .