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Definition of cleaner fish in English: cleaner fishnoun 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 Example sentencesExamples - Until recently, similar experiments on cleaner fish symbioses had failed to detect parasite reduction benefits to the host fish.
- At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
- The larger fish not only refrain from devouring these small cleaner fish, but actually readily open their mouth and gill cavities so that they are able to clean.
- The little helpers known as cleaner fish, which nibble parasites off larger reef fish, actually prefer to nibble their clients.
- Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
Definition of cleaner fish in US English: cleaner fishnoun 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, in particular L. dimidiatus Example sentencesExamples - The little helpers known as cleaner fish, which nibble parasites off larger reef fish, actually prefer to nibble their clients.
- Until recently, similar experiments on cleaner fish symbioses had failed to detect parasite reduction benefits to the host fish.
- At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
- Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
- The larger fish not only refrain from devouring these small cleaner fish, but actually readily open their mouth and gill cavities so that they are able to clean.
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