noun
any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
• Syn: ↑scorpaenid fish
• Hypernyms: ↑scorpaenoid, ↑scorpaenoid fish
• Hyponyms:
↑scorpionfish, ↑scorpion fish, ↑sea scorpion, ↑lionfish, ↑stonefish, ↑Synanceja verrucosa, ↑rockfish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Scorpaenidae, ↑family Scorpaenidae
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/skawr pee"nid/, adj.
1. belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
n.
2. a scorpaenid fish.
[1880-85; NL Scorpaenidae family name, equiv. to L scorpaen(a) ( < Gk skórpaina kind of fish; akin to skorpíos SCORPION) + -idae -IDAE; see -ID2]
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scorpaenid /skör-pēˈnid/
noun
A member of the genus Scorpaena or family Scorpaenidae, spiny-finned marine fish with large armoured heads, incl the scorpion fish and rock fish (also adjective)
ORIGIN: Gr skorpaina a kind of fish
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scorpaeˈnoid adjective and noun
Useful english dictionary. 2012.