SCORPAENOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scorpaenoid mean? 

• SCORPAENOID (noun)
  The noun SCORPAENOID has 1 sense:

1. fishes having the head armored with bony plates

  Familiarity information: SCORPAENOID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCORPAENOID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fishes having the head armored with bony plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish

Hypernyms ("scorpaenoid" is a kind of...):

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scorpaenoid"):

lingcod; Ophiodon elongatus (food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings)

scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish (any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific)

sculpin (any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths)

Cyclopterus lumpus; lumpfish (clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar)

Liparis liparis; sea snail; seasnail; snailfish (small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish)

poacher; sea poacher; sea poker (small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters)

greenling (food fish of the northern Pacific)

flathead (food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards)

gurnard (bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom)

butterflyfish; flying gurnard; flying robin (tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins)

Holonyms ("scorpaenoid" is a member of...):

Scorpaenoidea; suborder Scorpaenoidea (mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards)