Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (greenling is a kind of...): scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of greenling): Hexagrammos decagrammus; kelp greenling (common food and sport fish of western coast of North America) convict fish; convictfish; Oxylebius pictus; painted greenling (greenling with whitish body marked with black bands)