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SCORPAENID FISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scorpaenid fish mean?
• SCORPAENID FISH (noun)
The noun SCORPAENID FISH has 1 sense:
1. any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
Familiarity information: SCORPAENID FISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish
Hypernyms ("scorpaenid fish" is a kind of...):
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scorpaenid fish"):
scorpion fish; scorpionfish; sea scorpion (marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines)
lionfish (brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins)
stonefish; Synanceja verrucosa (venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock)
rockfish (marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America)
Holonyms ("scorpaenid fish" is a member of...):
family Scorpaenidae; Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes)
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