Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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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- noun Any of the
family Scorpaenidae of mostlymarine fish , including many of the world's mostvenomous species , the "sting " taking the form of sharpspines coated with venomousmucus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although most of us had our heads in our soups through tiredness, we managed a "light supper" of a loaf or two of bread each, plus helpings of razor clams, clams, squid, Sóller prawns, scorpionfish, sea bream and red bream, followed by homemade almond ice cream.
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There is a possible foreign body issue (i.e., risk for infection) if spikes from scorpionfish, stonefish, lionfish or spiny dogfish remain in the victim.
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Although most of us had our heads in our soups through tiredness, we managed a "light supper" of a loaf or two of bread each, plus helpings of razor clams, clams, squid, Sóller prawns, scorpionfish, sea bream and red bream, followed by homemade almond ice cream.
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They had stone fish and scorpionfish, and black-tipped reef sharks and a lot of Australian coral reef fish so that was cool to show the kids, and remind them what they'd seen a couple years back.
the pearl WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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They had stone fish and scorpionfish, and black-tipped reef sharks and a lot of Australian coral reef fish so that was cool to show the kids, and remind them what they'd seen a couple years back.
Archive 2008-05-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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The cool things I saw: lionfish and leafy scorpionfish, a blue tang (aka "Dory" in Finding Nemo), clownfish and anemones (aka "Nemo" in Finding Nemo), unicorn fish, parrotfish, triggerfish.
the great barrier reef WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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So, of course worried about being stung, I took to carrying rocks and trying to hit the scorpionfish with them whenever I saw them.
Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006 2006
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The scorpionfish looks like a sandy gray version of the lionfish.
Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006 2006
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The scorpionfish likes to sit still on the floor and watch you, and when shooed, only swims a couple feet then stops.
Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 9, 2006 2006
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The more menacing scorpionfish receives it name from the mildly poisonous spines on its back.
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