scorpionfish

Questions about scorpionfish

What does scorpionfish mean?

scorpionfish means "marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines".

How many syllables are in scorpionfish?

scorpionfish has 4 syllables: scor-pi-on-fish. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for scorpionfish?

Close synonyms include scorpion fish, sea scorpion. 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 scorpionfish a common word?

scorpionfish 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.