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单词 silver-fish
释义

silver-fishn.

Forms: Also silver fish.
Etymology: Compare Dutch zilvervisch, German silberfisch.
1. One of various silver-coloured fishes found in different parts of the world.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of (sea-bream)
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1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 26 Mullets, Snappers, Silver-fish, Garfish.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 The Silver Fish is smooth, broad, and thin, of a shining Pearl, or Silver Colour.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 203 The fish at the Cape call'd Silver-Fish is of the shape of a carp.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 195 The Fish they call the golden and silver Fish, that are found in divers Provinces [of China].
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 125 We caught..maids, silver fish, congers.
1852 Gordon in Zoologist 10 3458 Common Sea Bream... In 1849 many were caught by the fishermen, who gave them the name of ‘Siller-fish’.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 611 The Tarpum..is the ‘Silver-Fish’ of Pensacola.
1888 Stearns in Goode Amer. Fishes 407 The Silver fish or Grande Ecaille, is common everywhere on the Gulf coast.
2. An insect of the genus Lepisma, esp. L. saccharina or domestica; a bristletail or springtail.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Collembola > member of
springtail1781
skip-tail1839
silver-fish1855
collembolan1873
walking fish1877
shiner1914
collem1924
silver lady-
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Collembola > genus Podura
Podura1752
silver-fish1855
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Protura > member of
springtail1781
silver-fish1855
silver lady-
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > member of genus Lepisma (silver-fish)
sugar-mite1796
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
slicker1902
fish insect1905
silver lady-
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > machilis maritina (bristle tail)
bristletail1706
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
fish insect1905
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Diplura > member of
silver-fish1855
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1855 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art VI. 62 A little insect, vulgarly called the silver-fish, or the silver-lady,..usually found in damp and mouldy cupboards, and in old wood-work.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 96 Some tall volume which he..bent over with such delight, heedless of dust and silver~fish and the gathered odour of years.
1893 Academy 7 Oct. 292/1 The pest of all book lovers, the ‘silver-fish’ or ‘silver coloured book-worm’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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