Sardine Common

small fatty fish usually canned

any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

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

Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine Sardina pilchardus (syn. Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine Sardinops sagax (syn. Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.

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