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sardine
sardine is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
See Sardius.
- 3noun
any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- 4noun
small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
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- 5noun
small fatty fish usually canned
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- 6noun
a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
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