doctorfish

noun

Etymology

From doctor + fish.

  1. inherited from *peysk- — “fish
  2. inherited from *fiskaz — “fish
  3. inherited from *fisk
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as doctorfish — “doctor + fish

Definitions

  1. Either of the fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed on dead skin while…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doctorfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA