pilchard

English Thesaurus

1. small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	clupeid, clupeid fish,
definition	:	any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	pacific sardine, sardinops caerulea,
definition	:	small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus sardina, genus sardinia, sardina,
definition	:	pilchards (noun.animal)

2. small fatty fish usually canned (noun.food)

hypernym	:	saltwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from the sea used as food (noun.food)