noun
greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
• Syn: ↑painted greenling, ↑convict fish, ↑Oxylebius pictus
• Hypernyms: ↑greenling
• Member Holonyms: ↑Oxylebius, ↑genus Oxylebius
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/kon"vikt fish'/, n., pl. convictfishes, (esp. collectively) convictfish.
See painted greenling.
[CONVICT + FISH, so called from the fancied resemblance of its stripes to a convict's uniform]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.