pilchard

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪl.tʃəd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪl.t͡ʃɚd/

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pilchard (plural pilchard or pilchards)

1. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
   • 1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays

     He longs occasionally for human diet,
     His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.

The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. Often, the smaller fish are termed sardines and the larger ones pilchards.

• (small fish): sardine

• “pilchard”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• pilchard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pilchard m (plural pilchards)

1. pilchard, sardine

• “pilchard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.