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SCORPAENOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fishes having the head armored with bony plates
Synonyms:
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish
Classified under:
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)
