sardine

n 1: small fatty fish usually canned [syn: {pilchard}]

2: any of various small edible herring or related food fishes

frequently canned

3: a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: {sard}, {sardius}]

4: small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;

smaller and rounder than herring [syn: {pilchard}, {Sardina

pilchardus}]