Sinonim shiner

English Thesaurus

1. any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	cyprinid, cyprinid fish,
definition	:	soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	emerald shiner, notropis atherinoides,
definition	:	small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	common shiner, notropis cornutus, silversides,
definition	:	the common North American shiner (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	golden shiner, notemigonus crysoleucas,
definition	:	shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream' (noun.animal)

2. important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mackerel,
definition	:	any of various fishes of the family Scombridae (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	mackerel,
definition	:	flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus scomber, scomber,
definition	:	type genus of the Scombridae (noun.animal)

3. something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) (noun.object)

hypernym	:	object, physical object,
definition	:	a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow (noun.tops)

hyponym	:	twinkler,
definition	:	an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner (noun.object)

4. a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye (noun.state)

hypernym	:	bruise, contusion,
definition	:	an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (noun.state)

5. something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) (noun.object)

derivation	:	reflect, shine,
definition	:	be bright by reflecting or casting light (verb.weather)

derivation	:	reflect, shine,
definition	:	be bright by reflecting or casting light (verb.weather)