Definitions for sculpins

sculpins scul·pin

Spelling: [skuhl-pin]
IPA: /ˈskʌl pɪn/

Sculpins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in sculpins (cilnpssu).

Definitions for sculpins

noun

  1. any small, freshwater fish of the genus Cottus, of the family Cottidae, having a large head with one or more spines on each side; bullhead.
  2. any of numerous marine fishes of the same family.
  3. (in California) a common scorpionfish, Scorpaena guttata.

Origin of sculpins

First recorded in 1665-75; origin uncertain

Examples for sculpins

The spring sculpin and the flabby, muddy flounder are the common rewards of the angler's toil.

Rackby's heart came into his throat with the slow surge of a sculpin on a hook.

Graves, who was fond of salt water fishing, knew what a sculpin was, and appreciated the comparison.

So Dr. sculpin came with his neat little medicine-box under his arm.

They worshiped the animals of the seas, such as the shark, the whale and the sculpin.

A generalized type is one with fewer peculiarities, as the herring in comparison with the sculpin.

The sculpin and the sea vegetables may be compared to comic valentines, which expose the recipient to ridicule.

When we come ashore we had eighteen dogfish, four sculpin and a skate, and Stumpton was the happiest loon in Ostable County.

It was about noon that a stable-boy delivered Barnacles at sculpin Point.

We put out a bait that anybody with sense would say couldn't catch nothin' but sculpin, and, by mighty, we hooked a halibut!

Word Value for sculpins
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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