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greenling

Definitions of greenling
  1. noun
    food fish of the northern Pacific
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    types:
    Hexagrammos decagrammus, kelp greenling
    common food and sport fish of western coast of North America
    Oxylebius pictus, convict fish, convictfish, painted greenling
    greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
    type of:
    scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
    fishes having the head armored with bony plates
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