pilchard
1. small fatty fish usually canned • Syn: sardine • Hypernyms: saltwater fish 2. small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring • Syn: sardine, Sardina pilchardus • Hypernyms: clupeid fish, clupeid • Hyponyms: Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea • Member Holonyms: Sardina, genus Sardina, genus Sardinia
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