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sea scorpion

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sea scorpion
n.
See sculpin.
sea scorpion
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various northern marine scorpaenoid fishes of the family Cottidae, esp Taurulus bubalis (long-spined sea scorpion). They have a tapering body and a large head covered with bony plates and spines
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Noun1.sea scorpionsea scorpion - marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
scorpion fish, scorpionfish
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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