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pilot fish

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pilot fish
n.
A small slender marine fish (Naucrates ductor) that often swims in company with larger fishes, especially sharks and mantas.

pilot fish
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small carangid fish, Naucrates ductor, of tropical and subtropical seas, marked with dark vertical bands: often accompanies sharks and other large fishes
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various similar or related fishes


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Picture to yourself the pilot fish with the shark, the jackal with the lion--anything that is insignificant in companionship with what is formidable: not only formidable, Watson, but sinister--in the highest degree sinister.
 
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