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cleaner fish

Definition of cleaner fish

noun

  • a small fish, especially a striped wrasse, that is permitted to remove parasites from the skin, gills, and mouth of larger fishes, to their mutual benefit.
    • Genus Labroides, family Labridae: several species

cleaner fish in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of cleaner fish in the US English dictionary