About The Word Butterfish
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Butterfish
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What's The Definition Of Butterfish?
[n] slippery scaleless food fish of North Atlantic coastal waters
[n] small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines [n] any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin Synonyms | Synonyms for Butterfish: Pholis gunnellus | rock gunnel | stromateid | stromateid fish Related Terms | Find terms related to Butterfish: See Also | barrelfish | black rudderfish | bracketed blenny | butterfish | butterfish | California pompano | dollarfish | driftfish | family Stromateidae | genus Pholis | gunnel | harvestfish | Hyperglyphe perciformis | palometa | Palometa simillima | Paprilus alepidotus | percoid | percoid fish | percoidean | Pholis | Pholis gunnellus | Poronotus triacanthus | rock gunnel | saltwater fish | stromateid | stromateid fish | Stromateidae Butterfish In Webster's Dictionary \But"ter*fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
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.
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