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Noun butterfish has 3 senses
  1. butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
    --1 is a kind of     saltwater fish
    --1 is a part of
     butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid; rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus
  2. butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid - small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
    --2 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
    --2 is a member of Stromateidae, family Stromateidae
    --2 has parts: butterfish
    --2 has particulars:
     dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus; palometa, California pompano, Palometa simillima; harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus; driftfish; driftfish; barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis
  3. rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus - slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
    --3 is a kind of gunnel, bracketed blenny
    --3 is a member of Pholis, genus Pholis
    --3 has parts: butterfish
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