Word: silverfish
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...warehouse will have filtered air and temperature and humidity controls. In the past, collections have been damaged because of heat and overcrowding. Silverfish have eaten labels off objects, leaving them with no identification. Leather has desiccated, wood has cracked and animal skins have split because of erratic temperatures. And periodically, in hot weather, beetle eggs unexpectedly hatch and the insects eat their way through plant specimens in the botany department. Security will be tight, to avoid embarrassing losses like last summer's theft of one set of George Washington's false teeth...
...provides plenty. Esoteric words ("canescing," "superfetation," "glabrous") gambol freely with lowlife slang. Natalie Novotny, Wren's girl friend, refuses his offer to pay for dinner because he has already picked up the Czech. Objects and people are described in loopy, gargantuan locutions. A chandelier becomes a "hippodrome for silverfish"; an incidental character has "the dental terrain of a boar...
...followed one of my roommates home one night when he was with a girl named Lucy, and so the cat was named Lucy even thought it was a male cat. The cat lived on Pizza crusts, my roommate's marijuana plant. which he mistook for catnip, catfood, and silverfish, which are little bugs that come out of the radiator in the bathroom. The cat would have been indispensable as a silverfish-catcher if we had wanted the silverfish caught. He would sit patiently beside the radiator like a panther in the jungle, waiting for a silverfish so small it could...
Herbert W. Levi, curator of Arachnology at the comparative zoology section of the museum, first discovered the medium-sized brownish spiders in the building in 1960. After checking the building, he found it infested with the spiders. Citing a mysterious drop in the museum's silverfish population in 1937, and noting that the spiders eat silverfish, he concluded that the spiders have probably been in the museum for over 20 years...