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SHINER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):
cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shiner"):
emerald shiner; Notropis atherinoides (small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster)
common shiner; Notropis cornutus; silversides (the common North American shiner)
golden shiner; Notemigonus crysoleucas (shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called 'bream')
Sense 2
Meaning:
Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
Synonyms:
common mackerel; Scomber scombrus; shiner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):
mackerel (any of various fishes of the family Scombridae)
Meronyms (parts of "shiner"):
mackerel (flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish)
Holonyms ("shiner" is a member of...):
genus Scomber; Scomber (type genus of the Scombridae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):
object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shiner"):
twinkler (an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner)
Derivation:
shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("shiner" is a kind of...):
bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)
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