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butterfish

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but·ter·fish  (btr-fsh)
n. pl. butterfish or but·ter·fish·es
1. A marine food fish (Poronotus triacanthus) of the North American Atlantic coast, having a flattened body.
2. Any of various similar or related fishes, such as the moonfish and gunnel.

[From its slippery mucous coating.]
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Noun1.butterfishbutterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel, butterfish - slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
stromateid, stromateid fish, butterfish - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food
2.butterfish - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
family Stromateidae, Stromateidae - butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes
dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus - small food fish of Atlantic coast
California pompano, palometa, Palometa simillima - smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus - butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina
driftfish - small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
driftfish - larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico
barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis - blackish fish of New England waters
butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
3.butterfishbutterfish - slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
bracketed blenny, gunnel - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic
genus Pholis, Pholis - type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels
butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin


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