| NOUN | animal | sculpin | any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths |
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| Meaning | Any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths. | |
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| Member of | Cottidae, family Cottidae | sculpins |
| Narrower | bullhead | Freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines |
| grubby, Myxocephalus aenaeus | small sculpin of the coast of New England | |
| miller's-thumb | small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America | |
| sea raven, Hemitripterus americanus | large sculpin of western Atlantic | |
| Broader | scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish | fishes having the head armored with bony plates |
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