单词 | silver-fish |
释义 | silver-fishn. 1. One of various silver-coloured fishes found in different parts of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of (sea-bream) baleenc1185 sea-bream1530 old wife1585 pargo1589 ruffle1601 sargon1601 sargus1605 sea-liver1611 ruffe1647 silver-fish1703 porgy1725 brassem1731 red gilt-head1776 sparoid1842 panga1902 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. ΘΚΠ 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 silver lady- 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 silver lady- 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). < n.1703 |
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