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    SCORPAENOID

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Fishes having the head armored with bony platesplay

    Synonyms:

    scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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