Scol`o*pen"drine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
Scol"y*tid (?), n. [Gr. &?; to cut short.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous
species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied
genera. Also used adjectively.
||Scom"ber (?), n. [L., a mackerel, Gr. &?;.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
||acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
Scom"ber*oid (?), a. & n. [Cf. F. scombéroïde.] (Zoöl.) Same as
Scombroid.
||Scom`bri*for"mes (skm`br*fôr"mz), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of
||fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes.
Scom"broid (skm"broid), a. [Scomber + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining
to the Mackerel family. -- n. Any fish of the family Scombridæ, of
which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.
Scom"fish (skm"fsh or skm"- ), v. t. & i. To suffocate or stifle; to
smother. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]