Sardine

sardine
    n 1: small fatty fish usually canned [syn: {sardine},
         {pilchard}]
    2: any of various small edible herring or related food fishes
       frequently canned
    3: a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: {sard},
       {sardine}, {sardius}]
    4: small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;
       smaller and rounder than herring [syn: {pilchard}, {sardine},
       {Sardina pilchardus}]
    

Sardine \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. ?.]
   (Zool.)
   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.
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Sardine \Sar"dine\ (? or ?; 277), n.
   See {Sardius}.
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