PIKEBLENNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pikeblenny mean? 

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

1. tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIKEBLENNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pikeblenny" 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 "pikeblenny"):

bluethroat pikeblenny; Chaenopsis ocellata (found from Florida to Cuba)

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

Chaenopsis; genus Chaenopsis (a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies)