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