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Examples of scorpion fish in a Sentence
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The raw bar focuses on Southern Italian seafood: scorpion fish, squid, swordfish, amber jack and grouper.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
The latter class includes the scorpion fish.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
In Favignana town, the family-run Quello Che C'è...C'è! has fresh sea bream and freaky scorpion fish, which looks like hunks of coral.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2021
The restaurant uses all of its oceanic wizardry: First, in its logo, a poppy-red illustration of the spiky rascassa (scorpion fish) that it’s named after.
—Gemma Askham, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
La Capannina is a tad touristy but makes delicious local specialties like linguine with scorpion fish.
—Alexander Lobrano, Town & Country, 2 June 2017
Here, there are live animals showing off their colors — eels, scorpion fish, pipefish, green-patterned chain catsharks and red seahorses.
—James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
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First Known Use
1661, in the meaning defined above
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“Scorpion fish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scorpion%20fish. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
scorpion fish
noun
: any of a family (Scorpaenidae) of marine spiny-finned fishes
especially
: one having a venomous spine or spines on its dorsal fin
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