(n)small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks, Syn.combtooth blenny
n.; pl.Blennies [ L. blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; slime, mucus. ] (Zool.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous. [ 1913 Webster ]