grayling

noun

• 1an edible freshwater fish which is silvery-grey with horizontal violet stripes and has a long high dorsal fin, of both Eurasia and North America.

  • Genus Thymallus, family Salmonidae: several species

• 2a mainly brown European butterfly which has wings with bright eyespots and greyish undersides.

  • Hipparchia semele, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae