sardine

Noun
  1. Small fatty fish usually canned (synset 107810039)
    is a type of: saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food
    same as: pilchard
  2. Any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned (synset 102535233)
    is a 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
    subtypes:
    • sild - any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
    • brisling, clupea sprattus, sprat - small herring processed like a sardine
  3. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony (synset 115044301)
    is a type of: calcedony, chalcedony - a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz
    same as: sard, sardius
  4. Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;
    Smaller and rounder than herring (synset 102535840)
    is a type of: clupeid, clupeid fish - any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
    subtypes: pacific sardine, sardinops caerulea - small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America
    belongs to: genus sardina, genus sardinia, sardina - pilchards
    same as: pilchard, sardina pilchardus

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