Butterfish Synonyms

bŭtər-fĭsh
Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stromateid fish
  2. stromateid
Slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rock gunnel
  2. Pholis gunnellus

Butterfish Sentence Examples

  • Next in importance were the catches of menhaden, shad, clams, squeteague and alewives; while minor catches were made of crabs, croaker, bluefish, butterfish, catfish, perch and spotted and striped bass.

  • Catching hermit crabs, watching bright red sticky beadlet anemones catch a passing shrimp, watching the slippery butterfish vanish beneath a rock.

  • Gobies, blennies, butterfish and 3 spined sticklebacks are common in the rockpools.

  • Known to eat small gobies, small blennies and small wrasse, but not the Butterfish, Pholis gunnellus.