anchovy 
1. tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces • Hypernyms: fish • Substance Holonyms: anchovy paste 2. small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide • Hypernyms: soft-finned fish, malacopterygian • Hyponyms: mediterranean anchovy, Engraulis encrasicholus • Member Holonyms: Engraulidae, family Engraulidae
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