butterfish
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(noun) small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines |
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Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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Related Words: California pompano, Hyperglyphe perciformis, Palometa simillima, Paprilus alepidotus, Poronotus triacanthus, barrelfish, black rudderfish, dollarfish, driftfish, harvestfish, palometa, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean |
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(noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin |
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Related Words: saltwater fish |
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(noun) slippery scaleless food fish of North Atlantic coastal waters |
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Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
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Related Words: bracketed blenny, gunnel |
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