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SARDINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sardine" is a kind 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sardine"):
sild (any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway)
brisling; Clupea sprattus; sprat (small herring processed like a sardine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
Synonyms:
pilchard; Sardina pilchardus; sardine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("sardine" is a kind of...):
clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sardine"):
Pacific sardine; Sardinops caerulea (small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America)
Holonyms ("sardine" is a member of...):
genus Sardina; genus Sardinia; Sardina (pilchards)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Small fatty fish usually canned
Synonyms:
pilchard; sardine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sardine" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sardine" is a kind of...):
calcedony; chalcedony (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)
