scorpaenid
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1. any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish, |
| definition | : | fishes having the head armored with bony plates (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | scorpion fish, scorpionfish, sea scorpion, |
| definition | : | marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lionfish, |
| definition | : | brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | stonefish, synanceja verrucosa, |
| definition | : | venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | rockfish, |
| definition | : | marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family scorpaenidae, scorpaenidae, |
| definition | : | scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes (noun.animal) |
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