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Silversides  n.  (Zool.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.
Brook silversides (Zool.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.





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"Silversides" Quotes from Famous Books



... is very rough. You will be given a list of the needs of the laboratory for experimental purposes, and as far as possible, you will fill those needs. Sometimes you may have to assist in the collecting trip besides, as for green sea-urchins and the like; or perhaps you may have to draw a seine for silversides and small fish. Sometimes you may be needed to haul some of the lobster pots, because we shall have two men at least doing research work on lobsters. Again, you may have to get mussels for some work that is being done ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Words linked to "Silversides" :   silverside, Atherinidae, family Atherinidae, Atherinopsis californiensis, common shiner, jacksmelt


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