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butterfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun butterfish has 3 senses
- butterfish(n = noun.food) Array - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin; Array is a part of butterfish, pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel, butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish
- butterfish(n = noun.animal) stromateid, stromateid fish - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
- butterfish(n = noun.animal) pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel - slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters; Array is a kind of bracketed blenny, gunnel
is a kind of saltwater fish
is a member of family stromateidae, stromateidae
has particulars: dollarfish, poronotus triacanthus, california pompano, palometa, palometa simillima, harvestfish, paprilus alepidotus, driftfish, driftfish, barrelfish, black rudderfish, hyperglyphe perciformis
has parts: butterfish
is a member of genus pholis, pholis
has parts: butterfish
CIDE DICTIONARY
butterfish, n.
A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand. [1913 Webster]
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