pearl-fish

1. 1.

   found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds

   Synonymspearlfish

   Broaderpercoid fish

   Part ofCarapidae

Questions about pearl-fish

What does pearl-fish mean?

pearl-fish means "found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds".

How many syllables are in pearl-fish?

pearl-fish has 3 syllables: pe-arl--fish. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for pearl-fish?

Close synonyms include pearlfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pearl-fish a common word?

pearl-fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.