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

2 senses of pilchard

Sense 1
sardine, pilchard -- (small fatty fish usually canned)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2
pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus -- (small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring)
       => clupeid fish, clupeid -- (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)