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Blenny

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Noun

1. blenny, combtooth blenny

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Blenny

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noun plural -nies
1. 
any blennioid fish of the family Blenniidae of coastal waters, esp of the genus Blennius, having a tapering scaleless body, a long dorsal fin, and long raylike pelvic fins
2. 
any of various related fishes

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Blenny

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nounWord forms: plural ˈblennies or ˈblenny
any of various small marine percoid fishes (esp. family Blenniidae) with a long, many-rayed dorsal fin and a tapering body covered with slime

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Blenny

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n. pl. blen·nies
Any of numerous small chiefly marine bottom-feeding fishes of the suborder Blennioidei, having elongated bodies and often kept as aquarium fish.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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