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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of fishes of the family Fierasferidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.

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