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GREENLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenling mean? 

GREENLING (noun)
  The noun GREENLING has 1 sense:

1. food fish of the northern Pacificplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GREENLING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Food fish of the northern Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("greenling" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greenling"):

Hexagrammos decagrammus; kelp greenling (common food and sport fish of western coast of North America)

convict fish; convictfish; Oxylebius pictus; painted greenling (greenling with whitish body marked with black bands)

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

family Hexagrammidae; Hexagrammidae (greenlings)


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