noun (n)

• small fatty fish usually canned(noun.food)

  Synonym:
  sardine
  

  source: wordnet30
• small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring(noun.animal)

  Synonym:
  sardina pilchardus, sardine
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913