shiner 
1. a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye • Syn: black eye, mouse • Hypernyms: bruise, contusion 2. something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) • Derivationally related forms: shine • Hypernyms: object, physical object • Hyponyms: twinkler 3. important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales • Syn: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus • Hypernyms: mackerel • Member Holonyms: Scomber, genus Scomber • Part Meronyms: mackerel 4. any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis • Hypernyms: cyprinid, cyprinid fish • Hyponyms: emerald shiner, Notropis atherinoides, common shiner, silversides, Notropis cornutus, golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas
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