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VerbarLepisma

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles A common species Lepisma saccharina is found in houses and often injures books and furniture it feeds on starch and eats sized paper and starched clothes Called also shiner silverfish silver witch silver moth and furniture bug

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