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blen·ny

 (blĕn′ē)
n. pl. blen·nies
Any of numerous small chiefly marine bottom-feeding fishes of the suborder Blennioidei, having elongated bodies and often kept as aquarium fish.

[Latin blennius, a kind of sea fish, from Greek blennos, slime, blenny; see mel- in Indo-European roots.]
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blenny

(ˈblɛnɪ)
n, pl -nies
1. (Animals) any blennioid fish of the family Blenniidae of coastal waters, esp of the genus Blennius, having a tapering scaleless body, a long dorsal fin, and long raylike pelvic fins
2. (Animals) any of various related fishes
[C18: from Latin blennius, from Greek blennos slime; from the mucus that coats its body]
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blen•ny

(ˈblɛn i)

n., pl. -nies.
any of several small, spiny-finned fishes of the family Blenniidae, having a long, tapering body.
[1745–55; < Latin blennius a kind of fish < Greek blénnos slime, mucus]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.blenny - small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shoresblenny - small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks
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
Blennius pholis, shanny - European scaleless blenny
Molly Miller, Scartella cristata - inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
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The "Patagonian blenny" (Eleginops maclovinus, Georges Cuvier, 1830) is an endemic species with high potential for aquaculture production (Sa et al., 2014).
In the image on the right taken in the southern coast of Qatar (Khor Al Udeid), you can see the Blenny fish.
We report here on the first observations of the Panamic fanged blenny, Ophioblennius steindachneri Jordan & Evermann, 1898, in California marine waters.
During a BOTAC retired members' match, cod, coalies, mackerel, whiting, lesser spotted dogfish, plaice, dabs, flounder, launce, weavers, dragonet and a yarrells blenny were taken, along with a few octopus.
A tompot blenny, the little fish usually caught by children in rock pools, was the only fish on the scales at the end of the Gwent and District SAC competition at Llantwit Major and it only moved the reading to 0.10kg.
In the Pacific, the bizarre leaping blenny lives above the tideline in miniature caves.
Reproductive phenology of the Azorean rock pool blenny a fish alternative mating tactics.
Two new species of digeneans (Lecithasteridae and Haploporidae) of the intertidal blenny Scartichthys viridis (Valenciennes) from the central coast of Chile.
The most frequent prey in the diet of otter was the garfish, followed by blenny, long-spined bullhead, and wrasse (Table 1).
The sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus, and the feather blenny, Hypsoblennius hentzi, two additions to the Canadian Atlantic ichthyofauna.
The venomous fang blenny is a small brightly colored fish that is found in the Pacific region, mostly among coral reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef along Australia's east coast.
The purified trypsin enzyme from Dosidicus gigas showed a molecular weight of 23.5kDa, similar to several fish trypsin such as rainbow trout (25.7kDa; Kristjasson, 1991), common carp (28kDa; Cao et al, 2000), Monterey sardine (Sardinops sagax caerulea; 25kDa; Castillo-Yanez et al., 2005), Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda; 29kDa; Klomklao et al., 2007), walleye pollock (24kDa; Kishimura et al., 2008), sardinelle (Sardinella aurita; 28.8kDa; Khaled et al., 2011) and zebra blenny (Salaria basilisca; 27kDa; Ktari et al., 2012).