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

1 sense of butterfly fish

Sense 1
butterfly fish -- (small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide)
       => percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)


1 sense of butterflyfish

Sense 1
flying gurnard, flying robin, butterflyfish -- (tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins)
       => scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish -- (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)