Found 2 items, similar to sardine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sardine
sardine
n 1: small fatty fish usually canned [syn:
pilchard]
2: any of various small edible herring or related food fishes
frequently canned
3: a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn:
sard,
sardius]
4: small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;
smaller and rounder than herring [syn:
pilchard,
Sardina pilchardus
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sardine
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. ?.]
(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.
[1913 Webster]
Sardine
\Sar"dine\ (? or ?; 277), n.
See
Sardius.
[1913 Webster]