| NOUN | food | butterfish | any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid | small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | |
| animal | butterfish, rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
| Meaning | Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid | small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines |
| rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | |
| Broader | saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food |
| Meaning | small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | stromateid fish, stromateid | |
| Member of | Stromateidae, family Stromateidae | butterfishes |
| Parts | butterfish | Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin |
| Narrower | barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis | blackish fish of New England waters |
| dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus | small food fish of Atlantic coast | |
| driftfish | small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide / worldwide | |
| driftfish | larger / larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | |
| harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus | butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | |
| palometa, California pompano, Palometa simillima | smaller than Florida pompano | |
| Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
| Spanish | stromateid | |
| Meaning | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters. | |
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| Synonyms | rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus | |
| Member of | Pholis, genus Pholis | type genus of the Pholidae |
| Parts | butterfish | Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin |
| Broader | gunnel, bracketed blenny | small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic |
| Catalan | pholis gunnellus | |
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