sardine has definitions from the fields of zoology,chemistry,food,geology
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

Used in print

(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)

Japanese fishermen have sometimes observed that sardines hauled up in their nets during a tsunami have enormously swollen stomachs ; the fish have swallowed vast numbers of bottom living diatoms , raised to the surface by the disturbance .

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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) small fatty fish usually canned

Synonyms

pilchard

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

A quarter inch this way or that for the hardbake , or the toffee , or the barley sugar , or the sardines , or the bitters , or the condensed_milk , or the stationery , or the needles - what could it mean ?

Related terms

saltwater_fish

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[ noun ] (geology) a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

Synonyms

sardius sard

Related terms

chalcedony

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[ noun ] (zoology) small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
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