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SCULPIN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sculpin" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sculpin"):

bullhead (freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines)

miller's-thumb (small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America)

Hemitripterus americanus; sea raven (large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught)

grubby; Myxocephalus aenaeus (small sculpin of the coast of New England)

Holonyms ("sculpin" is a member of...):

Cottidae; family Cottidae (sculpins)

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