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Lepisma   Listen
noun
Lepisma  n.  (Zool.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture; it feeds on starch and eats sized paper and starched clothes. Called also shiner, silverfish, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.






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Words linked to "Lepisma" :   genus Lepisma, silverfish, family Lepismatidae



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