butterfishes

Variant of butterfish

butterfish definition

but·ter·fish (-fis̸h′)

noun pl. butterfish -·fish′, butterfishes -·fish′es

any of various fishes (esp. family Stromateidae) with a slippery, protective covering of mucus, as a gunnel

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