ROCK GUNNEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rock gunnel mean? 

• ROCK GUNNEL (noun)
  The noun ROCK GUNNEL has 1 sense:

1. slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

  Familiarity information: ROCK GUNNEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCK GUNNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel

Hypernyms ("rock gunnel" is a kind of...):

bracketed blenny; gunnel (small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic)

Meronyms (parts of "rock gunnel"):

butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)

Holonyms ("rock gunnel" is a member of...):

genus Pholis; Pholis (type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels)