SHINER


Meaning of SHINER in English

noun that which shines.

2. shiner ·noun a bright piece of money.

3. shiner ·noun a luminary.

4. shiner ·noun the common lepisma, or furniture bug.

5. shiner ·noun 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.

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