pilchard

The Clupea pilchardus, a fish allied to the herring, which appears in vast shoals off the Cornish coast about July.

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Pilchard
·noun A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
pilchard
n. The fish which visits theAustralian shores periodically, in shoals larger than theCornish shoals...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris