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butterfishes

n. (plural of butterfish English)

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butterfishes
butterfish
  1. n. any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

  2. small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines [syn: stromateid fish, stromateid]

  3. slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters [syn: rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus]

  4. [also: butterfishes (pl)]