sardine (n.)

  1. small fatty fish usually canned

    [ Syn: pilchard ]

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

  3. a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

    [ Syn: sard , sardius ]

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

    [ Syn: pilchard , sardina pilchardus ]

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