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Definition of Blennioid
1. Noun. Elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Blennioidea, Suborder Blennioidea
Specialized synonyms: Blenny, Combtooth Blenny, Clinid, Clinid Fish, Pikeblenny, Bracketed Blenny, Gunnel, Prickleback, Cryptacanthodes Maculatus, Ghostfish, Wrymouth, Catfish, Wolf Fish, Wolffish, Eelpout, Pout
Definition of Blennioid
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.
Definition of Blennioid
1. Noun. Any member of the "true blennies" of the suborder ''Blennioidei''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blennioid
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blennioid
Literary usage of Blennioid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"blennioid.S. haul it up, is often the signal for some rather irreverent expressions.
Unlike the land wolf, it is very good food, and the smaller ones make ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"In my article on the application of the name Pholis to the gunnels, I find a note
was omitted, replacing the homonymous name of the blennioid genus. ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Description of new blennioid fish from California. Washington, 1893. 8°.
Extr.: Proceedings US National Museum, v. 16. ..."
4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Except "for the separation of the shoulder-girdle from the skull, there seems to
be no reason for separating them far from the blennioid forms, ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"By Dr. Albert Günther, FRS On the Urogenital Apparatus of a blennioid Fish, from
Tasmania. By Dr. Albert Günther, ..."
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