buffalo fish

noun

1. any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus : family Catostomidae (suckers)

Example Sentences

It’s buffalo fish, which I grew up cooking on Friday nights with my grandmother outside of Memphis.

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But Lackmann says buffalo fish play an important role in the aquatic ecosystem.

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Now, months later, scientific testing has confirmed that the fish is a very rare – very bright – bigmouth buffalo fish.

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The day before, he and others had hauled 1,200 pounds of carp and some buffalo fish out of the Mississippi River.

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He says they catch bighead carp, silver carp, grass carp and buffalo fish.

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