scorpaenid fish

Definitions of scorpaenid fish

1. noun

   any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
   synonyms: scorpaenid

   types:

   scorpion fish, scorpionfish, sea scorpion

   marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines

   lionfish

   brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins

   Synanceja verrucosa, stonefish

   venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock

   rockfish

   marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America

   Scorpaena grandicornis, plumed scorpionfish

   a kind of scorpionfish

   Sebastodes caurinus, copper rockfish

   a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America

   Sebastodes miniatus, rasher, vermillion rockfish

   a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America

   Sebastodes ruberrimus, red rockfish

   a large fish of the Pacific coast of North America

   Sebastodes marinus, ocean perch, rosefish

   large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe

   type of:

   scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish

   fishes having the head armored with bony plates