Definition of scorpaenoids Scorpaenoids
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What does scorpaenoids mean?
Part of speech
🔤- scorpaenoids, noun, plural of scorpaenoid.
WordNet
NounPlural: scorpaenoids |
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| scorpaenoid - fishes having the head armored with bony plates | ||
| scorpaenoid fish | ||
| acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | ||
| scorpaenoidea, suborder scorpaenoidea mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards | ||
| ophiodon elongatus, lingcod 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, snailfish, seasnail small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | ||
| sea poacher, sea poker, poacher 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 pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout | ||
| gurnard bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom | ||
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Wiktionary 
- scorpaenoid (Noun)
A scorpaenid. - scorpaenoid (Adjective)
Of or relating to the family Scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- scorpaenoid (a.)
Of or pertaining to the family Scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [Written also scorpaenid.] See Illust. under Rockfish.
Part of speech
🔤- scorpaenoid, noun, singular of scorpaenoids.
