Definition of blennioids Blennioids

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What does blennioids mean?

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Noun
blennioid - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
		blennioid fish
		percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
		blennioidea, suborder blennioidea blennies; butterfishes; gunnels
		blenny, combtooth blenny small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks
		clinid, clinid fish mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds
		pikeblenny tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory
		bracketed blenny, gunnel small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic
		prickleback small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
		cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish, wrymouth eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
		wolf fish, wolffish, catfish large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins