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Pearlfish

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Pearl´fish`
n.1.(Zool.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
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Noun1.Pearlfish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass bedspearlfish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
pearl-fish
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Carapidae, family Carapidae - pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae
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