golden shiner

1. 1.

   shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'

   SynonymsNotemigonus crysoleucas

   Broadershiner

Questions about golden shiner

What does golden shiner mean?

golden shiner means "shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'".

What is another word for golden shiner?

Close synonyms include Notemigonus crysoleucas. 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 golden shiner a common word?

golden 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.