ˌsklirōpəˈrēˌī, -ler- noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from scler- + Greek pareia cheek
: a large and economically important order of spiny-finned fishes comprising the scorpion fishes, greenlings, sculpins, gurnards, and related forms that are distinguished by a process of the third suborbital plate extending backward to or toward the preopercle — compare mail-cheeked