scorpaenid

Other forms of scorpaenid

plural

scorpaenids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scorpaenid

What does scorpaenid mean?

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

How many syllables are in scorpaenid?

scorpaenid has 4 syllables: scor-pa-e-nid. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for scorpaenid?

Close synonyms include scorpaenid fish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scorpaenid a common word?

scorpaenid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.