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Silverfish   Listen
noun
Silverfish  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The tarpum.
(b)
A white variety of the goldfish.
2.
One of a variety of insects of the order Thysanura, especially Lepisma saccharina, which may infest houses, and eats starched clothing and sized papers. See Lepisma.





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"Silverfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... eighteen, the second upwards of eight hundred, consisting of pike, bass, fish resembling salmon, trout, redhorse, buffaloe, one rockfish, one flatback, perch, catfish, a small species of perch called, on the Ohio, silverfish, a shrimp of the same size, shape and flavour of those about Neworleans, and the lower part of the Mississippi. We also found very fat muscles; and on the river as well as the creek, are different kinds of ducks and plover. The wind, which in the ...
— History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark


Words linked to "Silverfish" :   Lepisma saccharina, Lepisma, goldfish, genus Lepisma, Carassius auratus, thysanuran insect, thysanuron


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