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PEARL-FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pearl-fish mean? 

PEARL-FISH (noun)
  The noun PEARL-FISH has 1 sense:

1. found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass bedsplay

  Familiarity information: PEARL-FISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEARL-FISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pearl-fish; pearlfish

Hypernyms ("pearl-fish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Holonyms ("pearl-fish" is a member of...):

Carapidae; family Carapidae (pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae)


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