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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)]