silverfish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++sil·ver·fish /ˈsɪlvəfɪʃ $ -ər-/ noun (plural silverfish or silverfishes) [countable] HBIa small silver-coloured insect that cannot fly and is found in houses 蠹鱼〔一种不会飞的室内银色小 昆虫〕
Examples from the Corpus
silverfish• We have no direct evidence of how they achieved flight but the living silverfish provides a clue.• In the bathroom I saw silverfish.• The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck.• Appraised value: Ask the silverfish.• Polly wiped the silverfish off the breadboard and started to cry.• The silverfish, for example, has compound eyes but others in the group are blind.• Until the cars moving along the university's peripheral roads were silverfish and the whole scene was dappled with low-lying cloud.sil·ver·fish nounChineseSyllable
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silverfish
sil‧ver‧fish /ˈsɪlvəfɪʃ $ -ər-/
noun (plural silverfish or silverfishes) [countable]
a small silver-coloured insect that cannot fly and is found in houses
sil‧ver‧fish /ˈsɪlvəfɪʃ $ -ər-/
noun (plural silverfish or silverfishes) [countable]a small silver-coloured insect that cannot fly and is found in houses