shiner

Noun

• any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis

• important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

• something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)

• a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  common mackerel , Scomber scombrus , black eye , mouse