- Foot soldier - Infantryman - Rereading about Buckingham Palace guard - Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades;
afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion,
taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform.
In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a
grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier
Guards of the British army, etc. - Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body
and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called
also onion fish, and rat-tail fish. - A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana
orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.
- Small food fish - Small sea fish - Type of fish - of White - A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the
Codfish family; -- called also fittin. - A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the
preceding; -- called also silver hake. - Any one of several species of North American marine
sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.
Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common
from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf
whiting.
- a member of the herring family found in the mediterranean sea - Fish served in Caesar salad - Small salty fish - Small salty fish, often pickled - Small sea fish - A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring
family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the
Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to
several allied species.
- Fish type - Fish, often pickled - Food fish of the northern seas - Small sea fish - One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and
allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus)
of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring
to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked
in great quantities.
- Drains off European fish - Food fish - Send Ira off to get little one from school - Small sea fish - Young pilchard - Any one of several small species of herring which are
commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or
European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea
sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are
mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden. - See Sardius.