anchovy

n. small edible herring-like fish

The anchovies are a family (Engraulidae) of small but common salt-water fish. The anchovy is a small green fish with blue reflections due to a silver longitudinal stripe that runs from the base of the caudal fin. It is maximum nine inches (~23 cm) in length and body shape is variable with more slender fish in northern populations. The snout is blunt with small, sharp teeth in both jaws. The mouth is larger than those of herrings and silversides, two fish which they closely resemble. It eats plankton and fish larvae.
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Noun
1. tiny Mediterranean fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces
(hypernym) fish
(substance-holonym) anchovy paste
2. small herring-like plankton-feeding fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
(hypernym) soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
(hyponym) mediterranean anchovy, Engraulis encrasicholus
(member-holonym) Engraulidae, family Engraulidae

(n.)
A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.
  

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