sardine

Meanings

Plural: sardines

Noun

• small fatty fish usually canned
• any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
• a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
• small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
• Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
• Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
• carnelian.
• Dark-brown sard.

Verb

• to fish for sardines
• to pack or cram together tightly.

Adj

• Characteristic of a sardius.

Synonyms

pilchard, sard, Sardina pilchardus, sardius

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