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BLENNIOID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins

Synonyms:

blennioid; blennioid fish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blennioid" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blennioid"):

blenny; combtooth blenny (small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks)

clinid; clinid fish (mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds)

pikeblenny (tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory)

bracketed blenny; gunnel (small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic)

prickleback (small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines)

Cryptacanthodes maculatus; ghostfish; wrymouth (eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth)

catfish; wolf fish; wolffish (large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins)

eelpout; pout (marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas)

Holonyms ("blennioid" is a member of...):

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)

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