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pearlfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pearlfish has 1 sense
- pearlfish(n = noun.animal) pearl-fish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
is a member of carapidae, family carapidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
pearlfish, n.
Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait. [1913 Webster]
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