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scorpionfish

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Noun1.scorpionfish - marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spinesscorpionfish - marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
scorpion fish, sea scorpion
scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
genus Scorpaena, Scorpaena - type genus of the Scorpaenidae: scorpionfishes
plumed scorpionfish, Scorpaena grandicornis - a kind of scorpionfish
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