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lionfish
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li·on·fish  (ln-fsh)
n. pl. lionfish or lion·fish·es
Any of various brightly colored tropical Pacific scorpion fishes of the genus Pterois, having venomous spines in the dorsal fin.
lionfish [ˈlaɪənˌfɪʃ]
n pl -fish, -fishes
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various scorpion fishes of the tropical Pacific genus Pterois, having a striped body and elongated spiny fins
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Noun1.lionfish - brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny finslionfish - brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins
scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
genus Pterois, Pterois - lionfishes
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