Noun pilchard has 2 senses
  1. sardine, pilchard - small fatty fish usually canned
    --1 is a kind of saltwater fish
  2. pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus - small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
    --2 is a kind of clupeid fish, clupeid
    --2 is a member of Sardina, genus Sardina, genus Sardinia
    --2 has particulars: Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea
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