sea scorpion

noun

1

: sculpin sense 1

2

: eurypterid

Examples of sea scorpion in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths. — Peter White, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026

Other contemporaries of these animals included large cephalopods such as giant squid, as well as huge sea scorpions. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 21 May 2025

New York The Eurypterus remipes is New York's state fossil, a sea scorpion from the Silurian age. — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023

Published today in The American Naturalist, the spine-tingling tale of a stabby sea scorpion is straight out of an old-school monster movie. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined at sense 1