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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pil·chard /ˈpɪlʧɚ/
 沙丁魚

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pil·chard n.  Zool. A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.
    Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings.   --Shak.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pilchard
      n 1: small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine]
      2: small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;
         smaller and rounder than herring [syn: sardine, Sardina
          pilchardus]