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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 beds
Familiarity information: PEARL-FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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