Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly marine fishes of the family Atherinidae, characteristically having a broad silvery band along each side and including the grunion.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several small fish, mostly in family Atherinidae (Atheriniformes), that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
- n. UK The upper side of a round of beef.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
Examples
“Note 1 'silverside' if you can get it; many butchers are familiar with the term and can prepare your cut of brisket in this special way.”
“Atlantic silverside, Atlantic menhaden, mummichog, striped killifish, and winter flounder comprised more than 92 percent of the sample.”
“Researchers tested the dispersants on mysid shrimp and inland silverside fish.”
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“A topside or silverside of beef is a much more popular roast dinner: easy to whack into a pan and cook to preference, but also easy to over-do because of its lack of fat.”
“Put the silverside in a deep saucepan and cover with cold water.”
“Both styles have their place in every kitchen, whether brined hams, bacon or silverside, to the full flavoured dry cured prosciutto, Parma, Spanish jamon or schinkenspeck, to air dried beef, bresaola and bundnerfleisch.”
“Corned beef comes from the brisket and silverside (just under the topside) of the cow.”
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“The most common of these have been the American eel, alewife, common mummichog, Atlantic silverside, and three sticklebacks (fourspine, threespine, and ninespine).”
“The rich resource of commercial and game fish are largemouth bass, yellow perch, tidewater silverside, pumpkinseed, blue-spotted sunfish, bluegill, black crappie and channel catfish.”
“Largemouth bass, yellow perch, striped bass, tidewater silverside and pumpkinseed fish are the ecologically dominant species.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silverside’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
arc-eye, ox-eyed, U-spot, U-mark, X-ray, big-eyed, big-eye, big-claw, Y-prickleback, big-head, big-lip, big-scale and 509 more...
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Silver
Silvery words. (Mithril doesn't count.)
lessilver, silver, ladysilver, loadsilver, silvery, silversmith, silverwork, silverware, ale-silver, quicksilver, aver-silver, besilver and 242 more...
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PECH - marine species
Alaska plaice, African cuttlefish, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for silverside.
knitandpurl "Be it salmon, skate, gammon or a silverside of beef, the ancient art of bringing something to tenderness by letting it blip and blop in not-quite-boiling water appeals not because of its robustness, but for its gentle tone."
Eating for England by Nigel Slater, p 209 Mar 24, 2010
hernesheir compare to dissimilar silversides Jan 10, 2009
hernesheir (n): a cut of beef from the hindquarter of a cow, just above the leg cut, that gets its name because of the silverwall on the side of the cut. Jan 10, 2009