scorpaenoid fish
English Thesaurus
1. fishes having the head armored with bony plates (noun.animal)
hyponym | : | scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish, |
definition | : | any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | sculpin, |
definition | : | any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | cyclopterus lumpus, lumpfish, |
definition | : | clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | poacher, sea poacher, sea poker, |
definition | : | small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | greenling, |
definition | : | food fish of the northern Pacific (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | flathead, |
definition | : | food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | gurnard, |
definition | : | bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom (noun.animal) |
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