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

4 senses of shiner

Sense 1
shiner, black eye, mouse -- (a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye)
       => bruise, contusion -- (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)

Sense 2
shiner -- (something that shines (with emitted or reflected light))
       => object, physical object -- (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects")

Sense 3
common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus -- (important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales)
       => mackerel -- (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

Sense 4
shiner -- (any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis)
       => cyprinid, cyprinid fish -- (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)