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

4 senses of sardine

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

Sense 2
sardine -- (any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned)
       => clupeid fish, clupeid -- (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
       => food fish -- (any fish used for food by human beings)

Sense 3
sard, sardine, sardius -- (a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony)
       => chalcedony, calcedony -- (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)

Sense 4
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)