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BLENNY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks

Synonyms:

blenny; combtooth blenny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

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

Blennius pholis; shanny (European scaleless blenny)

Molly Miller; Scartella cristata (inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic)

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

Blenniidae; family Blenniidae (a family of fish including: combtooth blennies)

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