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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: butterfish
butterfish
n 1: any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth
skin
2: small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body
and feeble spines [syn:
stromateid fish,
stromateid]
3: slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic
coastal waters [syn:
rock gunnel,
Pholis gunnellus]
[also:
butterfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Butterfish
Butterfish
\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.
[1913 Webster]
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