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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Butterfish \But"ter*fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to
their slippery coating of mucus, as the {Stromateus
triacanthus} of the Atlantic coast, the {Epinephelus
punctatus} of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the
kelpfish of New Zealand.
资料来源 : WordNet®
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)]