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butterfish

UK/ˈbʌtəfɪʃ/US/ˈbʌtəɹfɪʃ/

butterfish noun: perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.

butterfish: perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus
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Noun

butterfish (plural butterfish or butterfishes)

  1. Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
  2. A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
  3. The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
  4. (obsolete) 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.
  5. (informal) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).

butterfish meaning in Tamil and Odia

butterfish in Tamil

வெள்ளிறால்

butterfish in Odia

butterfish
ପାରୁଆ pāruā

Forms of butterfish

pluralbutterfish
pluralbutterfishes
alternative formbutter-fish

Origin of butterfish

From butter + fish.

Questions about butterfish

What does butterfish mean?
Butterfish means perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
What is butterfish in Tamil?
Butterfish in Tamil is வெள்ளிறால். See Butterfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is butterfish?
Butterfish is a noun.
How do you pronounce butterfish?
Butterfish is pronounced /ˈbʌtəfɪʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of butterfish?
The plural of butterfish is butterfish.

Words near butterfish in the dictionary

  1. Butterfields
  2. butterfin
  3. butterfinger
  4. butterfingered
  5. butterfingers
  6. butterfish
  7. butterfishes
  8. butterflied
  9. butterflier
  10. butterfliers
  11. butterflies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterfish (page history and authors); butterfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ପାରୁଆ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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