| Noun | 1. | scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays Ophiodon elongatus, lingcod - food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings Scorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea - mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific sculpin - any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths Cyclopterus lumpus, lumpfish - clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish - small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish sea poacher, sea poker, poacher - small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters greenling - food fish of the northern Pacific flathead - food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards gurnard - bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom butterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin - tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins |