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Shiner   /ʃˈaɪnər/   Listen
Shiner

noun
1.
A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye.  Synonyms: black eye, mouse.
2.
Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light).
3.
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.
4.
Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis.



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"Shiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... portion and whole eastern shore are admirably adapted, by deep water and soft marl bottom, to the coregoni and salmon trout, and nearer shore, by rocky bottom and sharp ledges, to the rock bass, black bass, and yellow perch. Large fish find an abundant food supply in the "lake shiner," an exquisitely beautiful creature and dainty morsel, about ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
 
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Words linked to "Shiner" :   cyprinid fish, Notropis atherinoides, physical object, object, cyprinid, silversides, Notropis cornutus, Notemigonus crysoleucas, shine, contusion, Scomber, twinkler, genus Scomber, mackerel, bruise



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