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butterfish

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: butterfish

1
 n
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
2
 n
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: butterfish
1

n slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

Synonyms:
Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel
Type of:
bracketed blenny, gunnel
small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic

n any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

Type of:
saltwater fish
flesh of fish from the sea used as food
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n small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Synonyms:
stromateid, stromateid fish
Types:
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Poronotus triacanthus, dollarfish
small food fish of Atlantic coast
California pompano, Palometa simillima, palometa
smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
Paprilus alepidotus, harvestfish
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
Hyperglyphe perciformis, barrelfish, black rudderfish
blackish fish of New England waters
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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