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SHANNY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shanny mean?
• SHANNY (noun)
The noun SHANNY has 1 sense:
1. European scaleless blenny
Familiarity information: SHANNY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European scaleless blenny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Blennius pholis; shanny
Hypernyms ("shanny" is a kind of...):
blenny; combtooth blenny (small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks)
Holonyms ("shanny" is a member of...):
Blennius; genus Blennius (type genus of the Blenniidae)
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