1. 餌としてしばしば釣り人が使う、欧州産の細長い小型淡水魚(small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers)
2. 沿岸性、または汽水性の小型の棘鰭類の魚で、大きな頭部と、吸盤に変形した腹びれのついた長くて先が細くなった体を持つ(small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker)