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