pearlfish

Noun

pearl=fish

WORDNET DICTIONARY

pearlfish(n = noun.animal) pearl-fish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds; Array

is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

is a member of carapidae, family carapidae

pearlfish, n.

Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait. [1913 Webster]