blenny
pronunciation
How to pronounce blenny in British English:
UK [b'lenɪ]
How to pronounce blenny in American English:
US [b'lenɪ]
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- Noun:
- small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; territorial and hole-dwelling
Word Origin
- blenny (n.)
- 1774, from Latin blennius (in Pliny), from Greek blennos, from blenna "slime, mucus," from PIE *mled-sno-, from root *mel- "soft." The fish so called from the coating on its scales.