pearlfish

English

Etymology

pearl +‎ fish

Noun

pearlfish (plural pearlfishes or pearlfish)

1. Any of various slender marine fish of the family , resembling eels.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pearlfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)