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Definition of Pearl-fish
1. Noun. Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Carapidae, Family Carapidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearl-fish
Literary usage of Pearl-fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Ceylon Pearl Fish., (pt. 4. 1905, (4, pl. 1); U.mag- nus п. ар. Bay of Naples.
... Ceylon Pearl Fish., 4, 1905, (51, pl. XI, C). Janira (?) nana n. sp. ..."
2. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"Proceeding pearl fish- to Porto Bello, he made himself master of that rich town ;
re- ^"Cu" ... pearl fish ..."
3. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"Proceeding pearl fish- to Porto Bello, he made himself master of that rich town ;
re- ^^ mained in it one day ; plundered it without molestation from its ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats by Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1853)
"... his vigorous play; And shoals of the Flying-fish leaped into day; And Ihc
pearl-fish under thy world of waves Laid up hie stores in tho old sea-caves. ..."
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