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Definition of Sculpins
1. sculpin [n] - See also: sculpin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sculpins
Literary usage of Sculpins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"varied are the sculpins of the North Pacific, ... contains small soft-bodied
sculpins from the depths of the North Pacific. ..."
2. Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and by Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan (1909)
"Like most other sculpins, the buffalo sculpin has no scales, ... All sculpins
have thorns or spines on the head, and across the cheek is a bone which runs ..."
3. Intellectual Arithmetic: Upon the Inductive Method of Instruction by Warren Colburn (1884)
"The lobsterman agreed to give them a lobster for every eight sculpins, and a cent
for every pair of sculpins left over ; how many lobsters did they get ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The sculpins are fishes of striking appearance owing to the peculiar manner in
... sculpins are exceedingly active and voracious and devour all kinds of ..."
5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"The sculpins constitute an exceedingly numerous and varied family, ... The sculpins
have little value as food, but are sometimes eaten and also used as bait ..."
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