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SCORPAENIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Scorpaenidae mean?

• SCORPAENIDAE (noun)
The noun SCORPAENIDAE has 1 sense:

1. scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes

Familiarity information: SCORPAENIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SCORPAENIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Scorpaenidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Scorpaenidae; Scorpaenidae

Hypernyms ("Scorpaenidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Scorpaenidae"):

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)

genus Pterois; Pterois (lionfishes)

genus Synanceja; Synanceja (stonefishes)

genus Sebastodes; Sebastodes (rockfishes)

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