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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific;
[syn: scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scorpaenoid \Scor*pae"noid\, a. [NL. Scorpaena, a typical genus (see Scorpene) + -oid.] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Scorpaenidae, which includes the scorpene, the rosefish, the California rockfishes, and many other food fishes. [Written also scorpaenid.] See Illust. under Rockfish. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scorpaenid n 1: any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm- water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific [syn: scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish]