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noun
Any of various slender marine fish of the family Carapidae, resembling eels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pearl-fish
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
History
From pearl + fish.
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