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Blenniidae

noun

a family of fish including: combtooth blennies

• Syn: ↑family Blenniidae

• Hypernyms: ↑fish family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Blennioidea, ↑suborder Blennioidea

• Member Meronyms: ↑blenny, ↑combtooth blenny, ↑Blennius, ↑genus Blennius, ↑Scartella, ↑genus Scartella

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\\bleˈnīəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Blennius, type genus (from Latin, a sea fish) + -idae — more at blenny

: a large family of small carnivorous marine fishes comprising the typical blennies and with related forms constituting a suborder of the Percomorphi — see blennioidea

Useful english dictionary. 2012.