Found 2 items, similar to Butterfish.
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]