emerald shiner

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   small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster

   SynonymsNotropis atherinoides

   Broadershiner

Questions about emerald shiner

What does emerald shiner mean?

emerald shiner means "small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster".

What is another word for emerald shiner?

Close synonyms include Notropis atherinoides. 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 emerald shiner a common word?

emerald 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.