sardine

English Thesaurus

1. any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	food fish,
definition	:	any fish used for food by human beings (noun.animal)

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

hyponym	:	sild,
definition	:	any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	brisling, clupea sprattus, sprat,
definition	:	small herring processed like a sardine (noun.animal)

2. 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)

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

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

4. a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	calcedony, chalcedony,
definition	:	a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz (noun.substance)