Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anchovy

2 senses of anchovy

Sense 1
anchovy -- (tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces)
       => fish -- (the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish")

Sense 2
anchovy -- (small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)