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SCULPIN

Dictionary entry overview: What does sculpin mean?

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

1. any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

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

Dictionary entry details

• SCULPIN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sculpin"):

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)

Holonyms ("sculpin" is a member of...):

Cottidae; family Cottidae (sculpins)

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