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PEARL FISHERY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pearl fishery mean?

• PEARL FISHERY (noun)
The noun PEARL FISHERY has 1 sense:

1. a fishery where they fish for pearl oysters

Familiarity information: PEARL FISHERY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PEARL FISHERY (noun)

Sense 1

pearl fishery ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A fishery where they fish for pearl oysters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pearl fishery" is a kind of...):

fishery; piscary (a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold)

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