'Sardine' definitions:

Definition of 'sardine'

noun

Small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine, pilchard]

noun

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

noun

A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard, sardine, sardius]

noun

Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring [syn: pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Sardine \Sar"dine\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F. sardine (cf. Sp. sardina, sarda, It. sardina, sardella), L. sardina, sarda; cf. Gr. ?, ?; so called from the island of Sardinia, Gr. ?.] (Zool.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden. [1913 Webster]