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butterfish
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As a noun, butterfish means any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially.
Meanings of butterfish
9 meaningsnoun
Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
informalThe sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) (the sablefish is not a true butterfish; but is called such informally)
Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skinfood
Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spinesanimal
Similar: stromateid fish, stromateidSlippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal watersanimal
Similar: rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteThe Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis,.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).