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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: butterfly fish
butterfly fish
n : small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes
having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found
worldwide
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Butterfly fish
Butterfly
\But"ter*fly`\, n.; pl.
Butterflies. [Perh. from the
color of a yellow species. AS. buter-fl[=e]ge,
buttor-fle['o]ge; cf. G. butterfliege, D. botervlieg. See
Butter, and
Fly.] (Zo["o]l.)
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal
Lepidoptera.
Note: [See Illust. under
Aphrodite.]
[1913 Webster]
Asclepias butterfly. See under
Asclepias.
Butterfly fish (Zo["o]l.), the ocellated blenny (
Blennius ocellaris
) of Europe. See
Blenny. The term is also
applied to the flying gurnard.
Butterfly shell (Zo["o]l.), a shell of the genus
Voluta.
Butterfly valve (Mech.), a kind of double clack valve,
consisting of two semicircular clappers or wings hinged to
a cross rib in the pump bucket. When open it somewhat
resembles a butterfly in shape.
[1913 Webster]
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