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    BLENNY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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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