Butterfish
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
Wordset Dictionary
any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- rock gunnelstromateidstromateid fish
- plural
- Butterfishes
- possessive
- Butterfish's
- pluralpossessive
- Butterfishes'