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Shiner   Listen
noun
Shiner  n.  That which shines. Specifically:
(a)
A luminary.
(b)
A bright piece of money. (Slang) "Has she the shiners, d' ye think?"
(c)
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
(d)
(Zool.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Blunt-nosed shiner (Zool.), the silver moonfish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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Words linked to "Shiner" :   shine, genus Scomber, contusion, Scomber scombrus, Notropis cornutus, silversides, common shiner, twinkler, mackerel, cyprinid fish, Scomber, common mackerel



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