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- noun Either of the
fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed ondead skin while leaving the healthy skin intact.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgeon fish of the West Indies
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And this has nothing to do with that nasty fetish video of that horrible Cockney woman and the eels… The Guardian reports on how the delicate mouthings ofimported Turkish doctorfish bring relief from psoriasis ...
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In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters.
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In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters.
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The Guardian reports on how the delicate mouthings ofimported Turkish doctorfish bring relief from psoriasis and also confirm for me that when old people take a bath it’s really just soup.
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