Usually means: Small, wingless insects that shimmer.
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  1. silverfishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. silverfishes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silverfishes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. silverfishes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. silverfishes: Wiktionary
  6. silverfishes: Dictionary.com
  7. silverfishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. silverfishes: Encyclopedia

(Note: See silverfish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (silverfish)

noun:  Certain insects
noun:  A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.
noun:  Other similar insects in the order Zygentoma, including:
noun:  Ctenolepisma lineata (four-lined silverfish).
noun:  Ctenolepisma longicaudata (grey silverfish).
noun:  Certain fish
noun:  Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).
noun:  Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
noun:  Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
noun:  A white variety of the goldfish.
noun:  Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
noun:  Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
noun:  Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
noun:  Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
noun:  Enteromius mattozi (papermouth)
noun:  Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
noun:  Elops saurus (ladyfish)
noun:  Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
noun:  Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
noun:  Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
noun:  Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
noun:  Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
noun:  Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)
▸ Also see silverfish


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