Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=6308&SynCode=26048&GenusName=Maccullochella&SpeciesName=macquariensis, http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Maccullochella-macquariensis.html.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gunnel, bracketed blenny
noun
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: stromateid fish, stromateid
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus, palometa, California pompano, Palometa simillima, harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus, driftfish, barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis
noun
any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: saltwater fish
History
From butter + fish.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
