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blenny

Noun

blen=ny

WORDNET DICTIONARY

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

is a kind of blennioid, blennioid fish

is a member of blenniidae, family blenniidae

has particulars: blennius pholis, shanny, molly miller, scartella cristata

blenny, n. [L. blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr. , fr. slime, mucus.].

A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous. [1913 Webster]

blenny, n. (pl. -ies) any of a family of small spiny-finned marine fish, esp. of the genus Blennius, having scaleless skins.

Etymology

L blennius f. Gk blennos mucus, with reference to its mucous coating

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