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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of various slender marine fish of the family Carapidae, resembling eels.
2. 2
   found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

pearl fishpearl-fish

Etymology

From pearl + fish.

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