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US
/ˈsɪɫvɝˌsaɪd/
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[ UK /sˈɪlvəsˌaɪd/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪlvəsˌaɪd/ ]
NOUN
- small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
How To Use silverside In A Sentence
- Other species include banded killfish, mummichog, tidewater silverside, bay anchovy, tesselated darter and spottail shiner. Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland
- This consists of killifishes, herrings, sardines, gobies, silversides, anchovies small mullets, and lizardfishes to name a few.
- I have just purchased pre-packed beef silverside. Times, Sunday Times
- The most common of these have been the American eel, alewife, common mummichog, Atlantic silverside, and three sticklebacks (fourspine, threespine, and ninespine). Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine
- The latter group includes Atlantic silversides, M. menidia, capelin Mallotus villosus and the mummichog, F. heteroclitus.
- Inland silversides were particularly common prey of juvenile gar in Lake Texoma, making up 84% of the diet, with gamefishes accounting for less than 1% of the diet.
- The night dive here produced more dive-bombing by huge tarpon, feeding on a bait-ball of silversides attracted by our floodlights.
- I even admit to thinking that some fish are just playing after on many different occasions watching Atlantic silversides Menidia menidia jumping over floating twigs over and over again. Archive 2008-09-01
- As in other island hotspots, there are two distinct groups of freshwater fishes in the Caribbean: on smaller and younger islands, most fish are species that are widespread in marine waters but also enter freshwater to some degree, while on the larger and older islands of the Greater Antilles, there are several groups that occupy inland waters, including gars, killifishes, silversides and cichlids. Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands
- Less expensive cuts such as brisket, silverside or topside have plenty of collagen, a protein present in connective tissues.