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noun any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths
originFrom earlier scorpene, from Latin scorpaena, from Ancient Greek σκόρπαινα (skórpaina, “kind of fish”), diminutive of σκορπίος (skorpíos). Compare scorpionfish.
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