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Rudd n. (Zool.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

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Etymology of 'Rudd'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rudd" Quotes from Famous Books

... debt was not cleared up and John Gird secured the debt with his house and lot. Thus ended Gird's tenure and the property passed on through other hands for twenty-four years to the Miller family; thence to Isaac Rudd, until the Moore family ...

— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore

Words linked to "Rudd" : Scardinius erythrophthalmus, Scardinius, cyprinid fish, cyprinid, genus Scardinius