Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Scorpænidæ and genus Scorpæna; a seascorpion: so called on account of the spines of the head and fins. See cut under
Scorpæna .
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Examples
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His once-smooth shoulders were now adorned with tusks hollowed out to inject scorpion-fish poison in anyone he fought.
Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999
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O 'course there are scorpion-fish an' toad-fishes in tropical waters, an 'their poison will cripple a man for
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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