pilot fish

noun

1. a small carangid fish, Naucrates ductor, of tropical and subtropical seas, marked with dark vertical bands: often accompanies sharks and other large fishes
2. any of various similar or related fishes

Example Sentences

And sharks meant pilot-fish, and remoras, and various sorts of parasitic creatures.

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Alighting at the ferry, they started up Front street, Rose in lead, he being pilot-fish.

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The pilot-fish were wildly excited; they stopped to see what was going to happen.

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Each moment I fancied I could feel the pilot-fish touching me, and I almost screamed with agony.

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We ate also pilot fish, and remoras; in fact, the sea yielded up its creatures abundantly to our larder.

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