brook silversides

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brook silversides - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Silversides \Sil"ver*sides`\, 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.
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     Brook silversides (Zool.), a small fresh-water North
        American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the
        marine silversides.
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