Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun butterfish

3 senses of butterfish

Sense 1
butterfish -- (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)
       => saltwater fish -- (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)

Sense 2
butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid -- (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Sense 3
rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus -- (slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters)
       => gunnel, bracketed blenny -- (small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic)