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Pilchard

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Noun

1. pilchard, sardine

small fatty fish usually canned

2. pilchard, sardina pilchardus, sardine

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pilchard

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noun
1. 
a European food fish, Sardina (or Clupea) pilchardus, with a rounded body covered with large scales: family Clupeidae (herrings)
2. 
a related fish, Sardinops neopilchardus, of S Australian waters

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Pilchard

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noun
a member of any of two genera (Sardina and Sardinops) of small, oily, marine clupeid fishes; esp., the commercial sardine (Sardina pilchardus) of W Europe

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pilchard

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n.
Any of various small edible marine fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially a commercially important European species, Sardina pilchardus, which is often canned. Small pilchards are sometimes called sardines.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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