scorpionfish

English

A scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae) caught at Bedok Jetty in Singapore

Etymology

From scorpion +‎ fish.

Noun

scorpionfish (plural scorpionfish or scorpionfishes)

1. Any of the family Scorpaenidae of mostly marine fish, including many of the world's most venomous species, the "sting" taking the form of sharp spines coated with venomous mucus.

Derived terms

• false scorpionfish

Translations

fish

• Asturian: tiñosu (ast)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蚰 (zh) (yóu), 鮋 / 鲉 (zh) (yóu)

• Czech: ropušnice f
• Dhivehi: ފަންހާމަސް އާއިލާ (fan̊hāmas āilā)
• Dutch: schorpioenvis (nl) m
• Finnish: skorpionisimppu, skorpionikala
• French: rascasse (fr) f
• Galician: escarapote (gl) m, alcarraza f
• German: Skorpionsfisch m
• Greek: σκορπίνα (el) f (skorpína)

  Ancient: σκόρπαινα f (skórpaina)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: scorfano (it) m, scorpenide m
• Japanese: 鰧 (ja), 虎魚 (ja) (オコゼ, okoze)
• Latin: scorpaena f
• Ligurian: scórpena f
• Maori: matuawhāpuku
• Ottoman Turkish: اسقورپیت (iskorpit)
• Portuguese: peixe-escorpião (pt) m, aranhiço m, mangangá (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: скорпе́на (ru) f (skorpéna), морско́й ёрш m (morskój jorš)
• Spanish: pez escorpión m
• Turkish: iskorpit (tr)

Further reading

• scorpionfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scorpaenidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scorpaenidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “scorpionfish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “scorpionfish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.