A species to fresh-water fish of the
Cyprinidæ or Carp family. The common European species is
Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera
Semotilus,
Squalius,
Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the
tautog,
black bass, etc. [
1913 Webster]