Usually means: Small, wingless, silvery insect pest.
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  1. silverfish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. silverfish: Merriam-Webster
  3. silverfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. silverfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. silverfish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. silverfish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Silverfish, silverfish: Wordnik
  8. silverfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. silverfish: Wiktionary
  10. silverfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. silverfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. silverfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. silverfish: Dictionary.com
  14. silverfish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Silverfish (band), Silverfish (disambiguation), Silverfish (video game), Silverfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Silverfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. silverfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. silverfish: Rhymezone
  19. Silverfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. silverfish: FreeDictionary.org
  21. silverfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. silverfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. silverfish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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)

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