Butterfish

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  • noun. Any of various fishes of the family Stromateidae having tender oily flesh, especially Peprilus triacanthus of the North American Atlantic coast.
  • noun. Any of various other fishes having oily flesh or slippery skin.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A name given to various fishes and other marine animals having a smooth and unctuous surface like butter.
  • noun. A fish of the genus MurÅ“noides, especially M. gunnellus.
  • noun. A serranoid fish, Enneacentrus punctatus. Also called nigger-fish.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
  • noun. slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
  • noun. small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
    • Word Usage
    "However, our old fish ID problem rears its head here - several species bear the name butterfish around the world."
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    bracketed blenny  gunnel  saltwater fish  
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