silverfish
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Lepisma saccharina (silverfish)
English
Etymology
From silver + fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect.
Noun
silverfish (plural silverfish or silverfishes)
- Certain insects
- A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.
- Other similar insects in the order Zygentoma, including:
- Certain fish
- Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).
- Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
- Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
- A white variety of the goldfish.
- Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
- Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
- Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
- Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
- Enteromius mattozi (papermouth)
- Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
- Elops saurus (ladyfish)
- Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
- Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
- Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
- Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
- Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
- Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)
Synonyms
- (type of bristletail): fishmoth
Translations
Lepisma saccharina