SARDINA PILCHARDUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sardina pilchardus mean? 

• SARDINA PILCHARDUS (noun)
  The noun SARDINA PILCHARDUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SARDINA PILCHARDUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARDINA PILCHARDUS (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pilchard; Sardina pilchardus; sardine

Hypernyms ("Sardina pilchardus" 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 "Sardina pilchardus"):

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

Holonyms ("Sardina pilchardus" is a member of...):

genus Sardina; genus Sardinia; Sardina (pilchards)