Butterfish

n. small edible fish

The family Stromateidae of butterfishes contains 17 species of fish in 3 genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.
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Noun
1. any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
(hypernym) saltwater fish
(part-holonym) stromateid fish, stromateid
2. small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
(synonym) stromateid fish, stromateid
(hypernym) percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
(hyponym) dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus
(member-holonym) Stromateidae, family Stromateidae
3. slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
(synonym) rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus
(hypernym) gunnel, bracketed blenny
(member-holonym) Pholis, genus Pholis

(n.)
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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