shiner : Idioms & Phrases


Blunt-nosed shiner

  • (Zoöl.), the silver moonfish.
Webster 1913

common shiner

  • noun the common North American shiner
    Notropis cornutus; silversides.
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emerald shiner

  • noun small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster
    Notropis atherinoides.
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golden shiner

  • noun shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'
    Notemigonus crysoleucas.
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