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scul•pin

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What does sculpin mean?

Noun Plural: sculpins
sculpin - any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths
		scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish fishes having the head armored with bony plates
		cottidae, family cottidae sculpins
		bullhead any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
		miller's-thumb small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America
		hemitripterus americanus, sea raven large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught

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sculpin (Noun)
A small fish of the family Cottidae, usually lacking scales. Often found on river bottoms and in tidal pools.

sculpin (n.)
Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
sculpin (n.)
A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
sculpin (n.)
The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

sculpin
skul′pin, n. (slang) a mischief-making fellow: a name given to the Dragonet, and also in the United States to various marine species of Cottus or Bull-head.—Also Skul′pin