BUTTERFISH

butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid

(noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

butterfish

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

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 , .

Source: Wiktionary

But"ter*fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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