pacific sardine

1. 1.

   small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America

   SynonymsSardinops caerulea

   Broaderpilchard

   Part ofSardinops

Questions about pacific sardine

What does pacific sardine mean?

pacific sardine means "small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America".

What is another word for pacific sardine?

Close synonyms include Sardinops caerulea. 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 pacific sardine a common word?

pacific sardine 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.