Usually means: Symbiotic fish swimming with sharks.
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  1. pilotfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. pilotfish: Vocabulary.com
  3. pilotfish: Wiktionary
  4. pilotfish (pilot fish): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  5. pilotfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. pilotfish: Dictionary.com
  7. Pilotfish (company), Pilotfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pilotfish: Rhymezone
  9. pilotfish: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pilotfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pilotfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pilotfish (fish): Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of pilot fish [A marine fish, Naucrates ductor, that often follows large vessels and sharks.]

Similar:
naucrates ductor, fisherboat, fish, pilot, sail, waterboatman, patrol ship, sea dog, sea hound, tin fish, more...

Types:
remora, escolar, barracuda, angelfish, butterflyfish, clownfish, damself, more...

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Similar:
naucrates ductor, fisherboat, fish, pilot, sail, waterboatman, patrol ship, sea dog, sea hound, tin fish, more...

Types:
remora, escolar, barracuda, angelfish, butterflyfish, clownfish, damself, more...



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