Definitions for shiner

Overview of noun shiner

The noun shiner has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. shiner, black eye, mouse

(a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye)

2. shiner

(something that shines (with emitted or reflected light))

3. common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus

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

4. shiner

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