Pearlfish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pearlfish \Pearl"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in
     manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
     [1913 Webster] Pearlins

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  pearl-fish
       n : found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea
           cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or
           near shallow seagrass beds [syn: {pearlfish}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pearlfish
       n : found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea
           cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or
           near shallow seagrass beds [syn: {pearl-fish}]