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单词 silverfish
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Definition of silverfish in English:

silverfish

nounPlural silverfishesˈsɪlvəfɪʃˈsɪlvərˌfɪʃ
  • 1A silvery bristletail that lives in houses and other buildings, chiefly nocturnal and feeding on starchy materials.

    Lepisma saccharina, family Lepismatidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including, roaches, silverfish, larder beetles, carpenter ants, and other woodborers, as well as wood decay organisms.
    • Ants and insects including silverfish, woolly bears, earwigs and spiders can be tackled with products from hardware shops.
    • The Clinic has plans to market insecticidal papers which need to be interleafed in books and magazines to keep away silverfish and bookworms.
    • I doubt so, the pages would have been eaten by moths and silverfish long before the work became public domain.
    • The owner of a ‘filthy’ Hull bakery which was found to have an infestation of ants, silverfish and grain beetle has been fined £6,000 for a catalogue of offences that could have led to serious food poisoning.
  • 2A silver-coloured fish, especially a variety of goldfish.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In addition Pleuragramma antarcticum, the Antarctic silverfish, is the primary fish prey for both predators.
    • The sun had set and looking up through the water we could see the moon's rays filtering in and giving the water an eerie silverfish glow.
    • But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.
 
 

Definition of silverfish in US English:

silverfish

nounˈsilvərˌfiSHˈsɪlvərˌfɪʃ
  • 1A chiefly nocturnal silvery bristletail that frequents houses and other buildings, feeding on starchy materials.

    Lepisma saccharina, family Lepismatidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I doubt so, the pages would have been eaten by moths and silverfish long before the work became public domain.
    • The Clinic has plans to market insecticidal papers which need to be interleafed in books and magazines to keep away silverfish and bookworms.
    • Ants and insects including silverfish, woolly bears, earwigs and spiders can be tackled with products from hardware shops.
    • Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including, roaches, silverfish, larder beetles, carpenter ants, and other woodborers, as well as wood decay organisms.
    • The owner of a ‘filthy’ Hull bakery which was found to have an infestation of ants, silverfish and grain beetle has been fined £6,000 for a catalogue of offences that could have led to serious food poisoning.
  • 2A silver-colored fish, especially a variety of goldfish.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sun had set and looking up through the water we could see the moon's rays filtering in and giving the water an eerie silverfish glow.
    • But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.
    • In addition Pleuragramma antarcticum, the Antarctic silverfish, is the primary fish prey for both predators.
 
 
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