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BLENNIOID FISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
Synonyms:
blennioid; blennioid fish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blennioid fish" 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 fish"):
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 fish" is a member of...):
Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)
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