sardines

Noun

• small fatty fish usually canned
• any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
• a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
• small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
• plural of sardine
• A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.

Synonyms

pilchard, sard, Sardina pilchardus, sardine, sardius