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say it: SHAHY-nur
shiner is a noun meaning "a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye". It carries 4 recorded senses.
important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shiner come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.