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BUTTERFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: butterfishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

Synonyms:

butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("butterfish" is a kind of...):

bracketed blenny; gunnel (small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic)

Meronyms (parts of "butterfish"):

butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)

Holonyms ("butterfish" is a member of...):

genus Pholis; Pholis (type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

Synonyms:

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("butterfish" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Meronyms (parts of "butterfish"):

butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butterfish"):

dollarfish; Poronotus triacanthus (small food fish of Atlantic coast)

California pompano; palometa; Palometa simillima (smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies)

harvestfish; Paprilus alepidotus (butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina)

driftfish (small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide)

driftfish (larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico)

barrelfish; black rudderfish; Hyperglyphe perciformis (blackish fish of New England waters)

Holonyms ("butterfish" is a member of...):

family Stromateidae; Stromateidae (butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("butterfish" is a kind of...):

saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Holonyms ("butterfish" is a part of...):

butterfish; Pholis gunnellus; rock gunnel (slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters)

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)

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