silverfish
- n silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing
- n a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
- The silverfish easily climb the adhesive tape to get at the flour, but the inside glass walls of the jar are too slippery for them to climb out.
- They had been feeding on silverfish and other furtive basement insects.
- Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from his oil, insisted on burying his bank notes in his mud-brick palaceuntil silverfish began drilling through the .