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noun
Any fish in the family Stromateidae, the butterfishes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, ichthyology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: butterfish, stromateid fish
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
History
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