SCULPINS Synonyms

• freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines

• any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States

• flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed

• large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

• any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

• To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity

• small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker

• small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers

• any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

• a rester who is sleeping

• a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal

• an unexpected achiever of success

• one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track

• a passenger car that has berths for sleeping

• pajamas with feet; worn by children

• a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed

• tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water

• an unexpected hit

• Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.

• Other species in the same genus.

• small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters