Sculpin

What do we mean by sculpin?

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. noun

A scorpionfish (Scorpaena guttata) of California coastal waters. noun

A callionymoid fish, Callionymus lyra, having at the angle of the preoperculum a strong compressed dentate spine; a dragonet: more fully called yellow sculpin. See dragonet, 2, and cut under Callionymus. noun

A mean or mischief-making fellow. noun

A cottoid fish, especially of the genus Cottus (or Acanthocottus), as C. scorpius of the northern Atlantic; C. grœnlandicus, the daddysculpin; C. æneus, the grubby of the New England and New York coasts. noun

A hemitripteroid fish, Hemitripterus acadianus, occurring in deeper water than the true sculpins off the northeastern coast of America. Also called deep-water sculpin, yellow sculpin, and sea-raven. See cut under sea-raven. noun

A scorpænoid fish, Scorpæna guttata, of the southern Californian coast, there called scorpene. See cut under Scorpæna. noun

Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with several sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America. noun

A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpænichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa. noun

The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lyra). noun

The sea raven. noun

A small fish of the family Cottidae, usually lacking scales. Often found on river bottoms and in tidal pools. noun

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

A small fish of the family Cottidae, usually lacking scales. Often found on river bottoms and in tidal pools.

A person who makes mischief.

Words that are spelled similarly to sculpin:
sculpin, skulpin, scullin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sculpin:
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Words that rhyme with sculpin:
skulpin, culpon, culpa in, gulp in, milpa in, pulp in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sculpin:
mottled, slimy, deepwater, prickly, horned, daddy, old, staghorn, siberian, young, shorthead, common, fourhorn, spoonhead, banded, northern, freshwater, water, reticulate, longhorn, marine, marbled, coastrange, male, torrent, predatory, rare, alaskan, spiny, european, intertidal, shorthorn, horn, female, rough, submarine, red, yellow, arctic, wooly, eared, nosed, fourhorned.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sculpin:
man.

Consonant match to sculpin:
skulpin, scale pan, scalp in.

Words that sound like sculpin:
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