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# anchovy

«anchovy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (anchovies)

### meaning for a pupil

An anchovy is a small, thin, salty fish, often sold in tins or used on pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anchovy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in cooking tales, a small fish fried in hot oil with other fish

### examples

- The cook fried the mullets and the anchovies in hot oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anchovy/#x1)
- Anchovies taste very salty on a pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anchovy/#x2)
- Each anchovy in the tin is one fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anchovy/#x3)

### note

each anchovy counts as one fish; the plural is anchovies

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anchovy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anchovy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.