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Butterfish

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Noun

1. butterfish

any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

2. butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish

small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

3. butterfish, pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel

slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Butterfish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
1. 
an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
2. Also called: greenbone or ()in Māori marari
an edible reef fish, Coridodax pullus, of esp S New Zealand. It has a slippery purplish-grey to olive-green skin and is often found browsing on kelp

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Butterfish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈbutterˌfish or ˈbutterˌfishes
any of various fishes (esp. family Stromateidae) with a slippery, protective covering of mucus, as a gunnel

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Butterfish

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n. pl. butterfish or but·ter·fish·es
1. Any of various fishes of the family Stromateidae having tender oily flesh, especially Peprilus triacanthus of the North American Atlantic coast.
2. Any of various other fishes having oily flesh or slippery skin.

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