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sardine

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: sardine

1
 n
small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
2
 n
a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: sardine
1

n small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

Synonyms:
Sardina pilchardus, pilchard
Types:
Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea
small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America
Type of:
clupeid, clupeid fish
any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

n any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

Types:
sild
any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
Clupea sprattus, brisling, sprat
small herring processed like a sardine
Type of:
food fish
any fish used for food by human beings
clupeid, clupeid fish
any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

n small fatty fish usually canned

Synonyms:
pilchard
Type of:
saltwater fish
flesh of fish from the sea used as food
2

n a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

Synonyms:
sard, sardius
Type of:
calcedony, chalcedony
a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz
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