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SHINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shiner mean? 

SHINER (noun)
  The noun SHINER has 4 senses:

1. a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eyeplay

2. something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)play

3. important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scalesplay

4. any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropisplay

  Familiarity information: SHINER used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHINER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

black eye; mouse; shiner

Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):

bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):

object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shiner"):

twinkler (an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner)

Derivation:

shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

common mackerel; Scomber scombrus; shiner

Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):

mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)

Meronyms (parts of "shiner"):

mackerel (flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish)

Holonyms ("shiner" is a member of...):

genus Scomber; Scomber (type genus of the Scombridae)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):

cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shiner"):

emerald shiner; Notropis atherinoides (small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster)

common shiner; Notropis cornutus; silversides (the common North American shiner)

golden shiner; Notemigonus crysoleucas (shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called 'bream')


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