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Definition of Greenlings
1. greenling [n] - See also: greenling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenlings
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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