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Scorpionfish

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Noun

1. scorpion fish, scorpionfish, sea scorpion

marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scorpionfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈscorpionˌfish or ˈscorpionˌfishes
any of various small, marine scorpaenids (esp. genus Scorpaena) with poisonous spines in the dorsal, anal, and pelvic fins
: often written scorpion fish

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scorpionfish

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n. pl. scorpionfish or scor·pi·on·fish·es or scorpion fish or scorpion fish·es
Any of various often brilliantly colored marine fishes of the family Scorpaenidae, having poisonous spines in the dorsal fins and often in the anal and pelvic fins, and including the lionfishes and, in some classifications, the rockfishes.

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