stromateid_fish (HyperDic hyper-dictionary) (English)

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English 1 sense of the expression *stromateid fish*:
NOUN	animal	stromateid fish, butterfish, stromateid	small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Englishstromateid fish: 1 sense noun 1, animal
Meaning	small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines.
Synonyms	butterfish, 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

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