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Definition of Blenny

Blenny
Blenny Blen"ny, n.; pl. Blennies. [L. blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr. ?, fr. ? slime, mucus.] (Zo["o]l.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniid[ae]; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

Meaning of Blenny from wikipedia

- Blenny (from the Gr**** ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine...
- USS Blenny (SS/AGSS-324), a Balao-class submarine in commission from 1944 to 1969, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the blenny, a fish found...
- The tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine) is a species of combtooth blenny from the north eastern Atlantic Ocean which is found in shallow, coastal...
- convict blenny/goby or the engineer blenny/goby, is a marine fish from the west-central Pacific Ocean. Despite its common names, it is neither a blenny nor...
- Threefin or triplefin blennies are blenniiforms, small percomorph marine fish of the family Tripterygiidae. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the...
- Meiacanthus smithi, the disco blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in coral reefs in the eastern Indian ocean. This species grows to a length...
- jewelled blenny or lawnmower blenny is a benthic, neritic, marine fish species endemic to Australasia. Despite being known as the lawnmower blenny, due to...
- The freshwater blenny (Salariopsis fluviatilis) is a species of fish in the family Blenniidae. It is found in African rivers and brooks in Algeria and...
- Striped blenny is a common name for several fishes and may refer to: Aspidontus taeniatus, native to the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans Chasmodes...
- The rusty blenny or Black Sea blenny (Parablennius sanguinolentus) is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic: Loire mouth, France...