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    SCORPAENID FISH

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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 Pacificplay

    Synonyms:

    scorpaenid; scorpaenid fish

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    Nouns denoting animals

    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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