CONVICT FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convict fish mean? 

• CONVICT FISH (noun)
  The noun CONVICT FISH has 1 sense:

1. greenling with whitish body marked with black bands

  Familiarity information: CONVICT FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVICT FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greenling with whitish body marked with black bands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

convict fish; convictfish; Oxylebius pictus; painted greenling

Hypernyms ("convict fish" is a kind of...):

greenling (food fish of the northern Pacific)

Holonyms ("convict fish" is a member of...):

genus Oxylebius; Oxylebius (a genus of Hexagrammidae)