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    ROCK GUNNEL

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal watersplay

    Synonyms:

    butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("rock gunnel" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (parts of "rock gunnel"):

    butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)

    Holonyms ("rock gunnel" is a member of...):

    genus Pholis; Pholis (type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels)

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