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Webster 1913 Edition


Butterfish

But′ter-fishˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
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.

Definition 2024


butterfish

butterfish

English

A butterfish (Peprilus paru)

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Alternative forms

  • butter-fish

Noun

butterfish (plural butterfish or butterfishes)

  1. Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
    1. Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
    2. A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
    3. The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
    4. (obsolete) The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis , .

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