scorpaenoid

scor·pae·noid  (skôr-pnoid)

adj.

Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.

n.

A scorpaenoid fish.

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[From New Latin Scorpaenode, suborder name, from Scorpaena, type genus, from Latin, a kind of fish, from Greek skorpaina, feminine of skorpios, a sea fish, scorpion.]

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scor·paenid (-nd) adj. & n.

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scorpaenoid [skɔːˈpiːnɔɪd]

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Scorpaenoidea, a suborder of spiny-finned fishes having bony plates covering the head: includes the sculpins, scorpion fishes, gurnards, etc.

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any fish belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidea

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

scorpaenoid - fishes having the head armored with bony plates scorpaenoid fish 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