stromateid

Thesaurus

Noun

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stromateid - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines stromateid fish, butterfish 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