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Definition: FIERASFER

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. 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.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Fierasfer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Fierasfer \Fi`e*ras"fer\, noun. [New Latin]. (references)

Definition: FIERASFER

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. 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.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "FIERASFER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Fierasfer \Fi`e*ras"fer\, noun. [New Latin]. (references)