convict fish

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   greenling with whitish body marked with black bands

   Synonymspainted greenlingconvictfishOxylebius pictus

   Broadergreenling

   Part ofOxylebius

Questions about convict fish

What does convict fish mean?

convict fish means "greenling with whitish body marked with black bands".

What is another word for convict fish?

Close synonyms include painted greenling, convictfish, Oxylebius pictus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is convict fish a common word?

convict fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.