Crossword-Solution: SCULPIN
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| Sculpin | n. | Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with 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. |
| Sculpin | n. | A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa. |
| Sculpin | n. | The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura). |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCULPIN | anagram | INSCULP, UNCLIPS |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SCULPIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN spiny-headed fish | 1 answer |
| COTTIDAE | 1 answer |
| type of fish of the family which includes bullheads and sea scorpions | 1 answer |
| HARDHEAD | 2 answers |
| spiny-headed fish | 3 answers |
| scorpionfish | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SCULPIN (5)
Flounders, tom-cod, and eels, to say nothing of an occasional sculpin, which boys still persist in calling "crahpies," or "crahooners," used to furnish abundant sport to a motley group of youngsters wherein the sons of merchants mingled democratically with the dirty, ragged children of the "Ten-footers" in the vicinity.
Their fortunes do not strongly interest one, though the "Sculpin"--the patriotic, deformed Bostonian, with his great-great-grandmother's ring (she was hanged for a witch)--is a very original and singular creation.
For'ard there and get that fog horn to goin'! And keep it goin'! Lively, you sculpin! Don't you open your mouth to me!' “Well, all night we sloshed along, straight acrost the bay.
Now the Sculpin (Cottus Virginianus) is a little water-beast which pretends to consider itself a fish, and, under that pretext, hangs about the piles upon which West-Boston Bridge is built, swallowing the bait and hook intended for flounders.
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 appreciated the comparison.