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Definition of Pearlfish
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
Definition of Pearlfish
1. n. Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
Definition of Pearlfish
1. Noun. Any of various slender marine fish of the family Carapidae, resembling eels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Pearlfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearlfish
Literary usage of Pearlfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"pearlfish, Fieras/er dubius Putnam, embedded in a layer of mother-of- pearl.
La Paz, Lower California. (Photograph by Capt. M. Castro. ..."
2. Seatonian Poems by John Mason Neale (1864)
"... Their varying sons unite: They leave the jungles, wild and far, That choke
the vales of Malabar: They leave the shores where pearlfish lie Midst seas ..."
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