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Definition of Pilotfish
1. Noun. Small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas.
Generic synonyms: Carangid, Carangid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Naucrates, Naucrates
Definition of Pilotfish
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pilot fish) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilotfish
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilotfish
Literary usage of Pilotfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... (Lake Champlain and Adirondack lakes), shad waiter (Lake Winnepesaukee),
pilotfish (Lake Champlain), ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Naucrates ductor, the pilotfish, or romero, inhabits the open sea, being
taken—everywhere rarely—in Europe, the West Indies, Hawaii, and Japan. ..."
3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Naucrates ductor, the pilotfish, or romero, inhabits the open sea, being
taken—everywhere rarely—in Europe, the West Indies, Hawaii, and Japan. ..."
4. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1823)
"Sciana Labrax, basse;—Stone Basse ; Gasterosteus Ductor, pilotfish ;—" two of
this species, a few years since, accompanied a ship from the Mediterranean ..."