Defenition of the word butterfish

• Defenition of the word butterfish

  • any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
  • small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
  • slippery scaleless food fish of North Atlantic coastal waters
  • slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
  • small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Synonyms for the word butterfish

• • Pholis gunnellus
  • rock gunnel
  • stromateid
  • stromateid fish

Meronymys for the word butterfish

• • butterfish
  • family Stromateidae
  • genus Pholis
  • Pholis
  • Pholis gunnellus
  • rock gunnel
  • stromateid
  • stromateid fish
  • Stromateidae

Hyponyms for the word butterfish

• • barrelfish
  • black rudderfish
  • California pompano
  • dollarfish
  • driftfish
  • harvestfish
  • Hyperglyphe perciformis
  • palometa
  • Palometa simillima
  • Paprilus alepidotus
  • Poronotus triacanthus

Hypernyms for the word butterfish

• • bracketed blenny
  • gunnel
  • percoid
  • percoid fish
  • percoidean
  • saltwater fish

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