n.
The fish which visits theAustralian shores periodically, in shoals larger than theCornish shoals, is Clupea sagax, Jenyns, the sameas the Californian Pilchard, and closely related to theEnglish Pilchard, which is Clupea pilchardus.
·noun A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The Clupea pilchardus, a fish allied to the herring, which appears in vast shoals off the Cornish co...
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