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    FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Scorpaenidae; Scorpaenidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Scorpaenidae" is a kind of...):

    fish family (any of various families of fish)

    Meronyms (members of "family Scorpaenidae"):

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

    genus Scorpaena; Scorpaena (type genus of the Scorpaenidae: scorpionfishes)

    genus Pterois; Pterois (lionfishes)

    genus Synanceja; Synanceja (stonefishes)

    genus Sebastodes; Sebastodes (rockfishes)

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