PILCHARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pilchard mean? 

• PILCHARD (noun)
  The noun PILCHARD has 2 senses:

1. small fatty fish usually canned

2. small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

  Familiarity information: PILCHARD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILCHARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small fatty fish usually canned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pilchard; sardine

Hypernyms ("pilchard" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pilchard; Sardina pilchardus; sardine

Hypernyms ("pilchard" is a kind of...):

clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pilchard"):

Pacific sardine; Sardinops caerulea (small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America)

Holonyms ("pilchard" is a member of...):

genus Sardina; genus Sardinia; Sardina (pilchards)