scorpaenoid

(skɔːˈpiːnɔɪd) adj (Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Scorpaenoidea, a suborder of spiny-finned fishes having bony plates covering the head: includes the sculpins, scorpion fishes, gurnards, etcn (Animals) any fish belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidea

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scorpaenoid - fishes having the head armored with bony platesscorpaenoid fishacanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible raysOphiodon elongatus, lingcod - food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlingsScorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea - mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnardsscorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacificsculpin - any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouthsCyclopterus lumpus, lumpfish - clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviarLiparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish - small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfishsea poacher, sea poker, poacher - small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific watersgreenling - food fish of the northern Pacificflathead - food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnardsgurnard - bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottombutterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin - tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins

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noun fishes having the head armored with bony plates

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