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min⋅now

  [min-oh]
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–noun, plural (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -nows, (especially collectively, Rare) -now for 1, 2, 3.
1. a small, European cyprinoid fish, Phoxinus phoxinus.
2. any other fish of the family Cyprinidae, including the carps, goldfishes, and daces.
3. any of various unrelated, small fishes.
4. a person or thing that is comparatively small or insignificant.
Origin:
1325–75; ME minwe, OE *mynwe (fem.) for myne (masc.); c. OHG munewa kind of fish
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min·now   (mĭn'ō)   
n.   pl. minnow or min·nows

  1. Any of a large group of small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, widely used as live bait.

  2. Any of various other small, often silver-colored fishes.


[Middle English meneu; see men-4 in Indo-European roots.]
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minnow 
c.1420, probably related to O.E. myne, earlier *mynwe, a name for some kind of fish, from P.Gmc. *muniwon (cf. M.L.G. möne, Du. meun, O.H.G. mun(i)wa, Ger. Münne), of unknown origin. Perhaps infl. in M.E. by Fr. menu "small."
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