butterfishes
See {butterfish}
butterfish
n 1: any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth
skin
2: small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body
and feeble spines [syn: {stromateid fish}, {stromateid}]
3: slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic
coastal waters [syn: {rock gunnel}, {Pholis gunnellus}]
[also: {butterfishes} (pl)]