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sea scorpion †a. = scorpion 3 a. Obs. b. Any fish of the Scorpænidæ, a scorpion-fish. c. A sculpin, a cottoid fish, Cottus scorpius.
1601Holland Pliny xxxii. vii. II. 438 The reddish sea scorpions. 1681Grew Musæum i. §v. ii. 106. 1755 tr. Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 160 The Ulk or Marulk, the Sea-Scorpion, called by the Ichthyologians Scorpius Marinus, because its bite is poisonous. 1758G. Edwards Glean. Nat. Hist. Pl. 284 The Sea Scorpion. 1859–62Sir J. Richardson, etc. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1868) II. 122 The Sea-scorpion or Sutor (Acanthocottus scorpius). 1896tr. Boas' Text-bk. Zool. 390 The Sea Scorpion (Cottus scorpius), with a large head, naked skin, spines on the head. |