English > blennioid fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins. |
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| Synonym | blennioid |
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| Member of | Blennioidea, suborder Blennioidea | blennies |
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| Narrower | blenny, combtooth blenny | small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores |
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| clinid, clinid fish | Mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds |
| eelpout, pout | marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas |
| gunnel, bracketed blenny | small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic |
| pikeblenny | Tropical American fishes |
| prickleback | small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas |
| wolffish, wolf fish, catfish | large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins |
| wrymouth, ghostfish, Cryptacanthodes maculatus | eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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| Spanish | blénido |
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| Catalan | blènnid |
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