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(Zoöl.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.


 
 
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IN BRIEF: n. - Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds.

 
 

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