scorpion wort (skor pionwert)

1. Sameas scorpion - gra .-2. A leguminous plant, Orni thopus scorpioides, native of southern Europe and related to the scorpion-senna. Scorpis (skôr pis), n. [NL. (Cuvier and Va lenciennes, 1831), fish.] In ichth., a genus of pimelepteroid fishes, variously limited, containing species of the southern Pacific. The northern fish formerly referred to the genus, the media luna of California, a handsome fish a foot long and valued for food, belongs to the genus Casio soma. See cut under Scorpidinæ .