| Common name | Cloister blenny |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | South Africa |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Springer, V.G., 1986 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | primary lexeme |
| 1st modifier | inanimate object |
| 2nd modifier | |
| Remarks | 'blenny' from Latin 'blennius', i.e., a sea fish (Ref. 11978), from Greek 'blennos', i.e., slime, a fish allied to 'kôbios'; 'cloister' originally an enclosed place, i.e., 'close' from Od French 'cloistre', from Latin 'claustrum', i.e., bar, bolt, enclosure; the notion of enclosure led to the word's being applied to a place of religious seclusion such as a monastery or convent, hence a covered walkway within a monastic building (p. 118 in Ref. 11979). |