shiner
Noun
- A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye (synset 114312889)
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Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) (synset 109455894)
is a type of: object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadowsubtypes: twinkler - an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner
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Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean;
Its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales (synset 102627181)is a type of: mackerel - any of various fishes of the family Scombridaebelongs to: genus scomber, scomber - type genus of the Scombridaehas: mackerel - flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fishsame as: common mackerel, scomber scombrus -
Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis (synset 101444066)
is a type of: cyprinid, cyprinid fish - soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scalessubtypes:
- emerald shiner, notropis atherinoides - small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster
- common shiner, notropis cornutus, silversides - the common North American shiner
- golden shiner, notemigonus crysoleucas - shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'
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