butterfish, n.
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
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Pholis gunnellus butterfish rock gunnel
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small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
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butterfish stromateid stromateid fish
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dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus
palometa, California pompano, Palometa simillima
harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus
driftfish
driftfish
barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis
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any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
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butterfish
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