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Sculpin

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Noun

1. sculpin

any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

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Sculpin

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noun plural -pin or -pins
US and Canadian
any of various fishes of the family Cottidae (bullheads and sea scorpions)
. Also spelled: skulpin

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Sculpin

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nounWord forms: plural ˈsculpin or ˈsculpins
1. 
any of a family (Cottidae) of small, generally scaleless, mostly marine percoid fishes with a spiny head and wide mouth
2.  US
a scorpionfish (Scorpaena guttata) of the S California coast

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sculpin

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n. pl. scul·pins or sculpin
1. Any of various marine and freshwater fishes chiefly of the family Cottidae, having a large flattened head with spines, few or no scales, and often fanlike pectoral fins.
2. A scorpionfish (Scorpaena guttata) of California coastal waters.

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