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CONVICTFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convictfish mean? 

CONVICTFISH (noun)
  The noun CONVICTFISH has 1 sense:

1. greenling with whitish body marked with black bandsplay

  Familiarity information: CONVICTFISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONVICTFISH (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 ("convictfish" is a kind of...):

greenling (food fish of the northern Pacific)

Holonyms ("convictfish" is a member of...):

genus Oxylebius; Oxylebius (a genus of Hexagrammidae)


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