Definition of blenny in English:

blenny

nounPlural blennies ˈblɛniˈblɛni

1A small spiny-finned marine fish with scaleless skin and a blunt head, typically living in shallow inshore or intertidal waters.
鳚鱼
Family Blenniidae: several genera, in particular Blennius
Example sentencesExamples
- Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny.
- Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies.
- The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish.
- Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional.
- There are, however, often flatfish, cheeky blennies and numerous and inquisitive wrasse.
- Gobies and blennies combined make up a dominant portion of the small fish inhabiting benthic tropical reefs around the world.
- Here we found gobies, blennies and butterfish hiding among the anemones.
- The Florida Keys are a great favourite among retired periwinkles, for example, and there's a growing colony of expatriate blennies in the warm waters around the Balearic Islands.
- Not eels at all, the wolf eel are among the largest of a sub-order of small gunnels and blennies.
- The battling blennies seem to have just about exhausted themselves when a shore crab wanders by, carrying the torn-off claw of a colleague that was unlucky enough to be disturbed while soft after moulting its armour.
- While blennies are primarily marine fishes, some members of the family occur in estuaries or in fresh water, for example, in lakes in Italy.
- In the rock pools blennies flicked from sunlight into the shelter of weed and anemone fringes, and hermit crabs went tip-toeing hastily from one dark crevice to the next as my shadow barred the water round them.
- I poke around some more and manage to find a small blenny.
- On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage.
- Vertical cracks in the walls are well worth investigating as, in addition to the usual shrimps and blennies, conger eels can be found in the larger cracks.
- Shaped like eel, this small slender fish is another relative of blennies.
- As we grew accustomed to the rocks, we realised they were not completely barren, for on their surface could be found clusters of small hard coral which provided shelter for tiny blennies, shrimps and countless other critters.
- The eel-like fish, which can reach a length of 2m, is closely related to the blenny.
- Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
- Rainbow wrasse old barnacle shells provide homes for numerous smiling blennies drifting along the reef at Bookends
1. 1.1 Used in names of other small fishes that resemble or are related to the true blennies, e.g. eel blenny.
  用于类似鳚鱼或与真正鳚鱼相近的其他小鱼名称，如eel blenny（鳗鳚）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Fish species include tompot and blackface blennies, leopard-spotted gobies and shannies.
  Then Yarrell's blennies and butterfish revealed themselves, along with long-spined scorpionfish in considerable numbers.
  Triplefin blennies are also unique among blennies in that they possess ctenoid (rough-edged) scales.
  Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels.
  In the beautiful elkhorn stands we found red-lipped blennies in three-color phases, octopus in the day, candy striped shrimp, lots of macro life, and scorpionfish.
  The blennies seem to be halfway between our shanny and tompot blenny; they have no crest on top of their heads but are big and quite colourful.
  There are usually also a few pollack, wrasse and bream, and hordes of tompot blennies.
  Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers.
  Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies.
  Checking carefully in nooks and crannies can often reveal tompot blennies and the occasional small scorpionfish.
  Seen much less frequently than the tompot and shanny, the Yarrell's blenny is not actually a true blenny, but belongs to a related family.
  There are the Mediterranean tompot blenny, the bashful yellow-faced or striped blenny, and the tiny Caribbean secretary blenny, giving office staff a bad name.
  Triplefin blennies, however, as the name suggests, can be distinguished by their three dorsal fins, the first two composed of spines and the third composed of soft rays.
  The shanny, occasionally known as the common blenny, lives on the shore and in very shallow water, so it will usually only be seen by divers at the beginning or end of a shore dive.
  In the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo), males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices.
  I bobbed and thrashed about on the surface of the Pacific, 20 miles off Ventura, CA like a tompot blenny with a ruptured swim-bladder.
  There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrell's blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish.
  That's one of those little fang blennies; they look virtually identical to the cleaner wrasse.
  Out of its hole it resembles a tompot blenny in shape, but without the antlers and the smile.
  One exception has been reported in the triplefin blenny, Axoclinus nigricaudus, in which there was no difference in the relative investment into spermatogenesis between territorial and nonterritorial satellite males.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin blennius, from Greek blennos 'mucus' (because of its mucous coating).

Rhymes

antennae, any, Benny, Dene, fenny, jenny, Kenny, Kilkenny, Lenny, many, penne, penny, Rennie

Definition of blenny in US English:

blenny

nounˈblɛniˈblenē

1A small spiny-finned marine fish with scaleless skin and a blunt head, typically living in shallow inshore or intertidal waters.
鳚鱼
Family Blennidae: several genera, in particular Blennius
Example sentencesExamples
- Not eels at all, the wolf eel are among the largest of a sub-order of small gunnels and blennies.
- The eel-like fish, which can reach a length of 2m, is closely related to the blenny.
- On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage.
- Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional.
- While blennies are primarily marine fishes, some members of the family occur in estuaries or in fresh water, for example, in lakes in Italy.
- The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish.
- Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
- I poke around some more and manage to find a small blenny.
- Rainbow wrasse old barnacle shells provide homes for numerous smiling blennies drifting along the reef at Bookends
- There are, however, often flatfish, cheeky blennies and numerous and inquisitive wrasse.
- Gobies and blennies combined make up a dominant portion of the small fish inhabiting benthic tropical reefs around the world.
- Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny.
- In the rock pools blennies flicked from sunlight into the shelter of weed and anemone fringes, and hermit crabs went tip-toeing hastily from one dark crevice to the next as my shadow barred the water round them.
- Vertical cracks in the walls are well worth investigating as, in addition to the usual shrimps and blennies, conger eels can be found in the larger cracks.
- Shaped like eel, this small slender fish is another relative of blennies.
- Here we found gobies, blennies and butterfish hiding among the anemones.
- The battling blennies seem to have just about exhausted themselves when a shore crab wanders by, carrying the torn-off claw of a colleague that was unlucky enough to be disturbed while soft after moulting its armour.
- The Florida Keys are a great favourite among retired periwinkles, for example, and there's a growing colony of expatriate blennies in the warm waters around the Balearic Islands.
- As we grew accustomed to the rocks, we realised they were not completely barren, for on their surface could be found clusters of small hard coral which provided shelter for tiny blennies, shrimps and countless other critters.
- Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies.
1. 1.1 Any of a number of other small fishes that resemble or are related to the true blennies, including the hairy blenny (Labrisomus nuchipinnis, family Clinidae), found especially along the Atlantic coast from the Bahamas to Brazil.
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are the Mediterranean tompot blenny, the bashful yellow-faced or striped blenny, and the tiny Caribbean secretary blenny, giving office staff a bad name.
  The shanny, occasionally known as the common blenny, lives on the shore and in very shallow water, so it will usually only be seen by divers at the beginning or end of a shore dive.
  Triplefin blennies are also unique among blennies in that they possess ctenoid (rough-edged) scales.
  There are usually also a few pollack, wrasse and bream, and hordes of tompot blennies.
  Out of its hole it resembles a tompot blenny in shape, but without the antlers and the smile.
  There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrell's blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish.
  That's one of those little fang blennies; they look virtually identical to the cleaner wrasse.
  Then Yarrell's blennies and butterfish revealed themselves, along with long-spined scorpionfish in considerable numbers.
  Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels.
  In the beautiful elkhorn stands we found red-lipped blennies in three-color phases, octopus in the day, candy striped shrimp, lots of macro life, and scorpionfish.
  Triplefin blennies, however, as the name suggests, can be distinguished by their three dorsal fins, the first two composed of spines and the third composed of soft rays.
  The blennies seem to be halfway between our shanny and tompot blenny; they have no crest on top of their heads but are big and quite colourful.
  I bobbed and thrashed about on the surface of the Pacific, 20 miles off Ventura, CA like a tompot blenny with a ruptured swim-bladder.
  Checking carefully in nooks and crannies can often reveal tompot blennies and the occasional small scorpionfish.
  Fish species include tompot and blackface blennies, leopard-spotted gobies and shannies.
  One exception has been reported in the triplefin blenny, Axoclinus nigricaudus, in which there was no difference in the relative investment into spermatogenesis between territorial and nonterritorial satellite males.
  Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers.
  Seen much less frequently than the tompot and shanny, the Yarrell's blenny is not actually a true blenny, but belongs to a related family.
  In the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo), males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices.
  Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin blennius, from Greek blennos ‘mucus’ (because of its mucous coating).

词汇	blenny
释义	Definition of blenny in English: blenny nounPlural blennies ˈblɛniˈblɛni 1A small spiny-finned marine fish with scaleless skin and a blunt head, typically living in shallow inshore or intertidal waters. 鳚鱼 Family Blenniidae: several genera, in particular Blennius Example sentencesExamples Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny. Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies. The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish. Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional. There are, however, often flatfish, cheeky blennies and numerous and inquisitive wrasse. Gobies and blennies combined make up a dominant portion of the small fish inhabiting benthic tropical reefs around the world. Here we found gobies, blennies and butterfish hiding among the anemones. The Florida Keys are a great favourite among retired periwinkles, for example, and there's a growing colony of expatriate blennies in the warm waters around the Balearic Islands. Not eels at all, the wolf eel are among the largest of a sub-order of small gunnels and blennies. The battling blennies seem to have just about exhausted themselves when a shore crab wanders by, carrying the torn-off claw of a colleague that was unlucky enough to be disturbed while soft after moulting its armour. While blennies are primarily marine fishes, some members of the family occur in estuaries or in fresh water, for example, in lakes in Italy. In the rock pools blennies flicked from sunlight into the shelter of weed and anemone fringes, and hermit crabs went tip-toeing hastily from one dark crevice to the next as my shadow barred the water round them. I poke around some more and manage to find a small blenny. On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage. Vertical cracks in the walls are well worth investigating as, in addition to the usual shrimps and blennies, conger eels can be found in the larger cracks. Shaped like eel, this small slender fish is another relative of blennies. As we grew accustomed to the rocks, we realised they were not completely barren, for on their surface could be found clusters of small hard coral which provided shelter for tiny blennies, shrimps and countless other critters. The eel-like fish, which can reach a length of 2m, is closely related to the blenny. Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead. Rainbow wrasse old barnacle shells provide homes for numerous smiling blennies drifting along the reef at Bookends 1.1 Used in names of other small fishes that resemble or are related to the true blennies, e.g. eel blenny. 用于类似鳚鱼或与真正鳚鱼相近的其他小鱼名称，如eel blenny（鳗鳚） Example sentencesExamples Fish species include tompot and blackface blennies, leopard-spotted gobies and shannies. Then Yarrell's blennies and butterfish revealed themselves, along with long-spined scorpionfish in considerable numbers. Triplefin blennies are also unique among blennies in that they possess ctenoid (rough-edged) scales. Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels. In the beautiful elkhorn stands we found red-lipped blennies in three-color phases, octopus in the day, candy striped shrimp, lots of macro life, and scorpionfish. The blennies seem to be halfway between our shanny and tompot blenny; they have no crest on top of their heads but are big and quite colourful. There are usually also a few pollack, wrasse and bream, and hordes of tompot blennies. Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers. Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies. Checking carefully in nooks and crannies can often reveal tompot blennies and the occasional small scorpionfish. Seen much less frequently than the tompot and shanny, the Yarrell's blenny is not actually a true blenny, but belongs to a related family. There are the Mediterranean tompot blenny, the bashful yellow-faced or striped blenny, and the tiny Caribbean secretary blenny, giving office staff a bad name. Triplefin blennies, however, as the name suggests, can be distinguished by their three dorsal fins, the first two composed of spines and the third composed of soft rays. The shanny, occasionally known as the common blenny, lives on the shore and in very shallow water, so it will usually only be seen by divers at the beginning or end of a shore dive. In the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo), males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices. I bobbed and thrashed about on the surface of the Pacific, 20 miles off Ventura, CA like a tompot blenny with a ruptured swim-bladder. There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrell's blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish. That's one of those little fang blennies; they look virtually identical to the cleaner wrasse. Out of its hole it resembles a tompot blenny in shape, but without the antlers and the smile. One exception has been reported in the triplefin blenny, Axoclinus nigricaudus, in which there was no difference in the relative investment into spermatogenesis between territorial and nonterritorial satellite males. Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin blennius, from Greek blennos 'mucus' (because of its mucous coating). Rhymes antennae, any, Benny, Dene, fenny, jenny, Kenny, Kilkenny, Lenny, many, penne, penny, Rennie Definition of blenny in US English: blenny nounˈblɛniˈblenē 1A small spiny-finned marine fish with scaleless skin and a blunt head, typically living in shallow inshore or intertidal waters. 鳚鱼 Family Blennidae: several genera, in particular Blennius Example sentencesExamples Not eels at all, the wolf eel are among the largest of a sub-order of small gunnels and blennies. The eel-like fish, which can reach a length of 2m, is closely related to the blenny. On top of a rock, a blenny is transfixed, unsure whether to swim off or remain still against the background that no longer serves as camouflage. Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional. While blennies are primarily marine fishes, some members of the family occur in estuaries or in fresh water, for example, in lakes in Italy. The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish. Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead. I poke around some more and manage to find a small blenny. Rainbow wrasse old barnacle shells provide homes for numerous smiling blennies drifting along the reef at Bookends There are, however, often flatfish, cheeky blennies and numerous and inquisitive wrasse. Gobies and blennies combined make up a dominant portion of the small fish inhabiting benthic tropical reefs around the world. Our favourite thing to find was an astonishingly wriggly fish called a blenny. In the rock pools blennies flicked from sunlight into the shelter of weed and anemone fringes, and hermit crabs went tip-toeing hastily from one dark crevice to the next as my shadow barred the water round them. Vertical cracks in the walls are well worth investigating as, in addition to the usual shrimps and blennies, conger eels can be found in the larger cracks. Shaped like eel, this small slender fish is another relative of blennies. Here we found gobies, blennies and butterfish hiding among the anemones. The battling blennies seem to have just about exhausted themselves when a shore crab wanders by, carrying the torn-off claw of a colleague that was unlucky enough to be disturbed while soft after moulting its armour. The Florida Keys are a great favourite among retired periwinkles, for example, and there's a growing colony of expatriate blennies in the warm waters around the Balearic Islands. As we grew accustomed to the rocks, we realised they were not completely barren, for on their surface could be found clusters of small hard coral which provided shelter for tiny blennies, shrimps and countless other critters. Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies. 1.1 Any of a number of other small fishes that resemble or are related to the true blennies, including the hairy blenny (Labrisomus nuchipinnis, family Clinidae), found especially along the Atlantic coast from the Bahamas to Brazil. Example sentencesExamples There are the Mediterranean tompot blenny, the bashful yellow-faced or striped blenny, and the tiny Caribbean secretary blenny, giving office staff a bad name. The shanny, occasionally known as the common blenny, lives on the shore and in very shallow water, so it will usually only be seen by divers at the beginning or end of a shore dive. Triplefin blennies are also unique among blennies in that they possess ctenoid (rough-edged) scales. There are usually also a few pollack, wrasse and bream, and hordes of tompot blennies. Out of its hole it resembles a tompot blenny in shape, but without the antlers and the smile. There are several other species to look out for, including the less-common Yarrell's blenny, the black-faced blenny, the shanny and the butterfish. That's one of those little fang blennies; they look virtually identical to the cleaner wrasse. Then Yarrell's blennies and butterfish revealed themselves, along with long-spined scorpionfish in considerable numbers. Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels. In the beautiful elkhorn stands we found red-lipped blennies in three-color phases, octopus in the day, candy striped shrimp, lots of macro life, and scorpionfish. Triplefin blennies, however, as the name suggests, can be distinguished by their three dorsal fins, the first two composed of spines and the third composed of soft rays. The blennies seem to be halfway between our shanny and tompot blenny; they have no crest on top of their heads but are big and quite colourful. I bobbed and thrashed about on the surface of the Pacific, 20 miles off Ventura, CA like a tompot blenny with a ruptured swim-bladder. Checking carefully in nooks and crannies can often reveal tompot blennies and the occasional small scorpionfish. Fish species include tompot and blackface blennies, leopard-spotted gobies and shannies. One exception has been reported in the triplefin blenny, Axoclinus nigricaudus, in which there was no difference in the relative investment into spermatogenesis between territorial and nonterritorial satellite males. Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers. Seen much less frequently than the tompot and shanny, the Yarrell's blenny is not actually a true blenny, but belongs to a related family. In the peacock blenny (Salaria pavo), males provide parental care in nest sites in rock crevices. Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies. Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin blennius, from Greek blennos ‘mucus’ (because of its mucous coating).
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