SARDINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sardine mean? 

• SARDINE (noun)
  The noun SARDINE has 4 senses:

1. small fatty fish usually canned

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

3. a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

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

  Familiarity information: SARDINE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARDINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small fatty fish usually canned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pilchard; sardine

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

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)

clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)

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

sild (any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway)

brisling; Clupea sprattus; sprat (small herring processed like a sardine)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sard; sardine; sardius

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

calcedony; chalcedony (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pilchard; Sardina pilchardus; sardine

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

clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)

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

Pacific sardine; Sardinops caerulea (small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America)

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

genus Sardina; genus Sardinia; Sardina (pilchards)

 Context examples 

Coldwater fish, notably salmon and sardines, are good sources of omega-3 acids.

(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)

Foods like milk, milk products like cheese and yogurt, fatty fish like mackerel and sardines, some greens like kale and collards and fortified cereals also are good sources.

(High Doses of Vitamin D Rapidly Reduce Arterial Stiffness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Foods rich in calcium include: • Dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt • Leafy, green vegetables • Fish with soft bones that you eat, such as canned sardines and salmon • Calcium-enriched foods such as breakfast cereals, fruit juices, soy and rice drinks, and tofu.

(Calcium, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)

Instead of lurking on the seafloor and ambushing prey, as many of its contemporaries did, Gladbachus may have been one of the first vertebrates to live in the water column — the space between the ocean's surface and bottom — where anchovies, sardines and herring make their home today.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

'Ha! Ha!' laughed the ghost, and having peeped through the keyhole at the princesses spinning away for dear life, the evil spirit picked up her victim and put him in a large tin box, where there were eleven other knights packed together without their heads, like sardines, who all rose and began to...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)