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doctorfishes

doctorfishes is the plural of doctorfish.

Meaning of doctorfish

Noun

doctorfish (plural doctorfishes or doctorfish)

  1. Either of the fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed on dead skin while leaving the healthy skin intact.
    • Walking at the Brixton market among the parrotfish, doctorfish and butterfish, Effa Edusie is surrounded by pieces of her childhood in Ghana.2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times

Questions about doctorfishes

What is doctorfishes the plural of?
Doctorfishes is the plural of doctorfish.

Words near doctorfishes in the dictionary

  1. doctorers
  2. doctorese
  3. doctoress
  4. doctoresses
  5. doctorfish
  6. doctorfishes
  7. doctorhood
  8. doctorial
  9. doctorially
  10. doctorin'
  11. doctoring

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