pilchard

2 definitions found

pilchard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pilchard \Pil"chard\, n. [Cf. It. pilseir, W. pilcod minnows.]
     (Zool.)
     A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling
     the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken
     in great numbers on the coast of England.
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           Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to
           herrings.                                --Shak.
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pilchard - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pilchard
      n 1: small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine,
           pilchard]
      2: small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;
         smaller and rounder than herring [syn: pilchard, sardine,
         Sardina pilchardus]