common shiner

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   the common North American shiner

   SynonymssilversidesNotropis cornutus

   Broadershiner

   Part ofNotropis

Questions about common shiner

What does common shiner mean?

common shiner means "the common North American shiner".

What is another word for common shiner?

Close synonyms include silversides, Notropis cornutus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common shiner a common word?

common shiner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.