Definition of Sillago

1. Noun. Type genus of the Sillaginidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sillago
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sillaginidae, Sillaginidae
Member holonyms: Whiting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillago

Silesians
Silicon Alley
Silicon Beach
Silicon Fen
Silicon Forest
Silicon Glen
Silicon Hills
Silicon Prairie
Silicon Sentier
Silicon Valley
Silicon Wadi
Silistra
Silk Road
Sillaginidae
Sillago
Sills
Silly Billies
Silly Billy
Silphium
Silphium laciniatum
Silteplase
Silurian
Silurian period
Siluridae
Siluriformes
Silurus glanis
Silvanus
Silver

Literary usage of Sillago

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"From the Red Soa to the southern coasts of Australia. I. sillago ... sillago burrus, Richards. Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. His/. 1842, ix. p. ..."

2. Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales by Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (1883)
"This contains our sand whiting, sillago maculata, Quoy and Gaim, Plate XVII. The body is covered with small ctenoid scales, the cleft of the mouth small and ..."

3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"A curious habit of both species {sillago maculata and 5. ciliata) is perhaps worth mentioning—when, finding themselves enclosed by the seine, they burrow in ..."

4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"Port Jackson; Brisbane; Cape York. 415. sillago CILIATA, Cuv. ... sillago GRACILIS, All. & Macl. Proc. Linn. Soc. NS Wales, Vol. I., p. 279, pi. 6, fig. 2. ..."

5. Notes on the Food Fishes and Edible Mollusca of New South Wales, Etc., Etc by E. P. Ramsay (1883)
"A curious habit of both species (sillago maculata and S. ciliata) is perhaps ... The Common Sand- Whiting, sillago maculata, abundant on the New South Wales ..."

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