butterfish
English
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A butterfish (Peprilus paru)
Wikispecies
Wikispecies
Alternative forms
- butter-fish
Etymology
From butter + fish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtəfɪʃ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtəɹfɪʃ/
Noun
butterfish (plural butterfish or butterfishes)
- Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
- Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
- A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
- The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
- (obsolete) The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis , .
- (informal) The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) (the sablefish is not a true butterfish; but is called such informally)
Translations
fish of the family Stromateidae
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Pholis gunnellus
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Odax pullus
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Maccullochella macquariensis — see trout cod