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SCORPAENID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific

Synonyms:

scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("scorpaenid" 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"):

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" is a member of...):

family Scorpaenidae; Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes)

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