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Butterfish

Butterfish Meaning & Definition
Butterfish Definition And Meaning

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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