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greenling
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green·ling  (grnlng)
n.
Any of various marine food fishes of the family Hexagrammidae, which frequent rocky coastal areas of the northern Pacific.
greenling [ˈgriːnlɪŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any scorpaenoid food fish of the family Hexagrammidae of the North Pacific Ocean
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Noun1.greenling - food fish of the northern Pacificgreenling - food fish of the northern Pacific    
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates
family Hexagrammidae, Hexagrammidae - greenlings
Hexagrammos decagrammus, kelp greenling - common food and sport fish of western coast of North America
convict fish, convictfish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling - greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
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Spawning and development of greenlings (family Hexagrammidae).
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The latter name sounds like a badly translated line from a poem by Baudelaire ("striped arabesque greenlings greet the yellow dawn … ").
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