sculpin

scul·pin  (sklpn)

n. pl. scul·pins or sculpin

1. Any of various marine and freshwater fishes of the family Cottidae, having a large flattened head and prominent spines.

2. A scorpion fish (Scorpaena guttata) of California coastal waters. Also called sea scorpion.

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sculpin - any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates Cottidae, family Cottidae - sculpins bullhead - freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines miller's-thumb - small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America Hemitripterus americanus, sea raven - large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught grubby, Myxocephalus aenaeus - small sculpin of the coast of New England