Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sardine . - noun A clupeoid fish, Clupea or Sardinella aurita, a slender herring-like fish with well-toothed mouth, about the size of the sardine, and prepared like it in certain Mediterranean ports.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A precious stone. See
sardius .
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- noun mineralogy
sard - noun dated A
sardine .
Etymologies
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Italian sardella.
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Delarue is wrong in blaming the correction of Jacob Gronovius in changing the laurel into a sardel.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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