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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEARLFISH

PEARLFISH Pearl "fish `, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pearlfish

pearl |fish |ˈpəːlfɪʃ | ▶noun ( pl. same or pearlfishes ) 1 a long slender fish found chiefly in warmer seas, which lives inside the shells of bivalve molluscs or the body cavities of sea cucumbers and other invertebrates. ●Family Carapidae: several genera and species. 2 a small Argentinian killifish, popular in aquaria. ●Cynolebius belotti, family Cyprinodontidae.

 

Oxford Dictionary

pearlfish

pearl |fish |ˈpəːlfɪʃ | ▶noun ( pl. same or pearlfishes ) 1 a long slender fish found chiefly in warmer seas, which lives inside the shells of bivalve molluscs or the body cavities of sea cucumbers and other invertebrates. ●Family Carapidae: several genera and species. 2 a small Argentinian killifish, popular in aquaria. ●Cynolebius belotti, family Cyprinodontidae.