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stone·fish (st

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n. pl. stonefish or stone·fish·es

Any of several tropical scorpion fishes of the genus Synanceja, especially S. verrucosa, which resembles a small rock and ejects a deadly venom from spines on its dorsal fin.

[From its resemblance to an encrusted stone.]

stonefish [ˈstəʊnˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fish, -fishes

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a venomous tropical marine scorpaenid fish, Synanceja verrucosa, that resembles a piece of rock on the seabed

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stonefish - venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock

Synanceja verrucosa

scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific

genus Synanceja, Synanceja - stonefishes

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