Meaning of BUTTERFISH
| Pronunciation: | | 'butur`fish
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel, stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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