Crossword clues for butterfish
butterfish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunnel \Gun"nel\, n. [See Gunwale.]
A gunwale.
(Zo["o]l.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Mur[ae]noides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
dollar \dol"lar\, n. [D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St. Joachim, in Bohemia. See Dale.]
(a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 41
5 grains. (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 2
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22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
Note: Previous to 1837 the silver dollar had a larger amount of alloy, but only the same amount of silver as now, the total weight being 416 grains. The gold dollar as a distinct coin was first made in 1849. The eagles, half eagles, and quarter eagles coined before 1834 contained 2
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75 grains of gold and 2.25 grains of alloy for each dollar.
2. A coin of the same general weight and value as the United States silver dollar, though differing slightly in different countries, formerly current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.
3. The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in value in different countries, commonly employed in the United States and a number of other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean, Liberia, and several others.
Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop.
Dollar fish (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the United States coast ( Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See Butterfish.
Trade dollar, a silver coin formerly made at the United States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of alloy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially 2 # perciform fish of the family ''(taxlink Stromateidae family show=1)'', including the genera (taxlink Pampus genus noshow=1), (taxlink Peprilus genus noshow=1) and (taxlink Stromateus genus noshow=1). 3 # A (vern rock gunnel pedia=1), (taxlink Pholis gunnellus species noshow=1), an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic. 4 # The New Zealand fish (taxlink Odax pullus species noshow=1), also known as greenbone. 5 # (context obsolete English) The (vern Murray perch pedia=1), (taxlink Oligorus mitchelli species noshow=1); An Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as (vern trout cod pedia=1), (taxlink Maccullochella macquariensis species noshow=1) , .
WordNet
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)]
Usage examples of "butterfish".
Instead of tender cod or delicate flounder, he harvested chewy pout, or cusk or butterfish or froglike monkfish and lumpfish.
Cover well-cleaned and lightly-gashed butterfish with boiling water, season with one chopped onion, parsley and thyme, salt and pepper.
Now, looking out at the calm Caladan seas and watching the boats return from a day of harvesting kelp and fat butterfish, Vor sat with his eager young adjutant, Abulurd Butler, youngest son of Quentin Vigar and Wandra Butler.
Later that day, when the tavern was quiet and most of the men with boats had gone out to sea in pursuit of schools of butterfish, Leronica welcomed a group of jihadis from the observation outpost.
Caladan seas and watching the boats return from a day of harvesting kelp and fat butterfish, Vor sat with his eager young adjutant, Abulurd Butler, youngest son of Quentin Vigar and Wandra Butler.
The nuptial dance of the ragworm on the surface of the ocean, the selfless paternity of the butterfish, entranced him as much now as it had done when he first beheld it fifteen years ago, but there were problems, not least of them the new Vice Chancellor who had made it clear that it was publications that counted, not teaching.
When the hunters tired of fishing, and when they wearied of crossing the sand-dunes and the glaring, shimmering beachglaring and shimmering on every fine day of summer-to poke off the mussels and spear the butterfish and groper, they pushed through the Ceratopetalums and the burrawangs, and, following the tortuous bed of the principal creek amid the ferns and the moss and the vines and the myrtles, gradually ascending, they entered the sub-tropical patch where the ferns were huge and lank and staghorns clustered on rocks and trees, and the beautiful Dendrobium clung, and the supplejacks and leatherwoods and bangalow palms ran up in slender height, and that pretty massive parasite-the wild fig-made its umbrageous shade, as has been written.