Dictionary entry

Silverfish

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪlvəfɪʃ/

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪlvəfɪʃ/

Myanmar Meaning

(pl same ) (စာအုပ်ကြားတွင် တွေ့ရ လေ့ရှိသော) အတောင်မဲ့ အမြီးနှစ်ခွ ငွေရောင်ပိုး။

Definition

silverfish /'sÇlvǝfÇʃ/ n ( pl unchanged) (စာအုပ္ၾကားတြင္ ေတြ႕ရ ေလ့ရိွေသာ) အေတာင္မဲ့ အၿမီးႏွစ္ခြ ေငြေရာင္ပိုး။

Examples

  1. ‘The Clinic has plans to market insecticidal papers which need to be interleafed in books and magazines to keep away silverfish and bookworms.’
  2. ‘The owner of a ‘filthy’ Hull bakery which was found to have an infestation of ants
  3. silverfish and grain beetle has been fined £6
  4. 000 for a catalogue of offences that could have led to serious food poisoning.’
  5. ‘I doubt so
  6. the pages would have been eaten by moths and silverfish long before the work became public domain.’
  7. ‘Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including
  8. roaches
  9. silverfish
  10. larder beetles
  11. carpenter ants
  12. and other woodborers
  13. as well as wood decay organisms.’
  14. ‘Ants and insects including silverfish
  15. woolly bears
  16. earwigs and spiders can be tackled with products from hardware shops.’
  17. ‘But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals
  18. the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.’
  19. ‘In addition Pleuragramma antarcticum
  20. the Antarctic silverfish
  21. is the primary fish prey for both predators.’
  22. ‘The sun had set and looking up through the water we could see the moon's rays filtering in and giving the water an eerie silverfish glow.’