NOUN | food | butterfish | any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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