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1. (n.) butterfish
a small, flattened marine food fish, Peprilus triacanthus, of U.S. Atlantic coastal waters.
Etymology: (1665–75)
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1. (noun) butterfish
any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
2. (noun) butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
3. (noun) rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
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1. (noun) butterfish
a name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand
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