BRACKETED BLENNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bracketed blenny mean? 

• BRACKETED BLENNY (noun)
  The noun BRACKETED BLENNY has 1 sense:

1. small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic

  Familiarity information: BRACKETED BLENNY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACKETED BLENNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bracketed blenny; gunnel

Hypernyms ("bracketed blenny" is a kind of...):

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

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

butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel (slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters)

Holonyms ("bracketed blenny" is a member of...):

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