BLENNIOIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Blennioidea mean? 

• BLENNIOIDEA (noun)
  The noun BLENNIOIDEA has 1 sense:

1. blennies; butterfishes; gunnels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLENNIOIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blennies; butterfishes; gunnels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Blennioidea"):

blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Blenniidae; family Blenniidae (a family of fish including: combtooth blennies)

Clinidae; family Clinidae (viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas)

family Pholidae; family Pholididae; Pholidae (a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea)

family Stichaeidae; Stichaeidae (pricklebacks)

Anarhichadidae; family Anarhichadidae (wolffishes)

family Zoarcidae; Zoarcidae (eelpouts)

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

order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi (one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna)