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pil⋅chard

  [pil-cherd]
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–noun
1. a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
2. any of several related fishes, as Sardinops caeruleus, common off the California coast.
Origin:
1520–30; earlier pilcher; orig. uncert.
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pil·chard   (pĭl'chərd)   
n.  Any of various small marine fishes related to the herrings, especially a commercially important edible species, Sardina pilchardus, of European waters.

[Origin unknown.]
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Word Origin & History

pilchard 
fish of the herring family, 1542, earlier pilcher (1530), of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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