scorpaenoid fish

Questions about scorpaenoid fish

What does scorpaenoid fish mean?

scorpaenoid fish means "fishes having the head armored with bony plates".

What is another word for scorpaenoid fish?

Close synonyms include scorpaenoid. 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 scorpaenoid fish a common word?

scorpaenoid 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.