scorpaenid fish

Questions about scorpaenid fish

What does scorpaenid fish mean?

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

What is another word for scorpaenid fish?

Close synonyms include scorpaenid. 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 fish a common word?

scorpaenid fish 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.