English > scorpaenoid: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | fishes having the head armored with bony plates. |
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| Synonym | scorpaenoid fish |
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| Member of | Scorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea | mail-cheeked fishes |
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| Narrower | flathead | food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific |
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| flying gurnard, flying robin, butterflyfish | Tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding |
| greenling | food fish of the northern Pacific |
| gurnard | bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom |
| lingcod, Ophiodon elongatus | food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings |
| lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus | clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker |
| poacher, sea poacher, sea poker | small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates |
| scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish | Any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide / worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific |
| sculpin | Any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths |
| snailfish, seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis | small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker |
| Broader | spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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| Spanish | escorpénido |
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| Catalan | escorpènid |
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