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Sculpin

noun
1.
Any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths.





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"Sculpin" Quotes from Famous Books



... Old SCULPIN,—"My freedom excuse, You're playing the cobbler with holes in your shoes; Your brown side is up,—but just wait till you're tried And you'll find that all flounders ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... was, if not a leader in politics and local affairs, still one whose opinions counted. Some of those opinions, as given, were pointed and dryly descriptive; as, for instance, when a certain town-meeting candidate was compared to a sculpin—"with a big head that sort of impresses you, till you get close enough to realize it has to be big to make room for so much mouth." Graves, who was fond of salt water fishing, knew what a sculpin was, and ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln


Words linked to "Sculpin" :   scorpaenoid fish, Cottidae, bullhead, Myxocephalus aenaeus, sea raven, scorpaenoid, grubby, family Cottidae, miller's-thumb, Hemitripterus americanus


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