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Sardine

Sardine Meaning & Definition
Sardine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sardine?

[n] any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
[n] small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
[n] small fatty fish usually canned
[n] a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

Synonyms | Synonyms for Sardine: pilchard | pilchard | sard | Sardina pilchardus | sardius

Related Terms | Find terms related to Sardine:

See Also | brisling | calcedony | chalcedony | Clupea sprattus | clupeid | clupeid fish | food fish | genus Sardina | genus Sardinia | Pacific sardine | saltwater fish | Sardina | Sardinops caerulea | sild | sprat

Sardine In Webster's Dictionary

\Sar"dine\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F. sardine (cf. Sp. sardina, sarda, It. sardina, sardella), L. sardina, sarda; cf. Gr. ?, ?; so called from the island of Sardinia, Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine ({Clupea pilchardus}). The California sardine ({Clupea sagax}) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
\Sar"dine\ (? or ?; 277), n. See {Sardius}.

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