Wiktionary
butterfishes
n. (plural of butterfish English)
WordNet
butterfishes
See butterfish
butterfish
n. any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines [syn: stromateid fish, stromateid]
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters [syn: rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus]
[also: butterfishes (pl)]