Definition of Greenlings

1. Noun. (plural of greenling) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Greenlings

1. greenling [n] - See also: greenling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenlings

greenish yellow
greenishly
greenishness
greenishnesses
greenism
greenkeeper
greenkeepers
greenkeeping
greenlet
greenlets
greenlight
greenlighted
greenlighting
greenlights
greenling
greenlings (current term)
greenlit
greenly
greenmail
greenmailed
greenmailer
greenmailers
greenmailing
greenmails
greenmarket
greenmarkets
greenness
greennesses
greenockite
greenockites

Literary usage of Greenlings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"About San Francisco it is dry and tasteless. The greenlings: ... The curious family of greenlings, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"... thus included the herring, trout, salmon, smelt, cod, flounder and their relatives, and might have been extended to the sculpins, greenlings and other ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... live in kelp about rocks, and furnish good food, although their flesh and bones have a greenish tinge, whence they are sometimes called 'greenlings. ..."

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