† blendĭus (in MSS. and edd. also blennĭus, corresponding more nearly to the Greek), ii, m. (blendĕa, ae, f., Plin. 1 Ind. libr. 32, 32), = βλέννος Oppian., βέλεννος Athen., an inferior kind of seafish, Plin. 32, 9, 32, § 102.