Usually means: Small, oily fish, mild flavor.
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  1. butterfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. butterfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. butterfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. butterfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. butterfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. butterfish: Wordnik
  7. butterfish: Wiktionary
  8. butterfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. butterfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. butterfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Butterfish, butterfish: Dictionary.com
  12. Butterfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Butterfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. butterfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. butterfish: Rhymezone
  16. Butterfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. butterfish: FreeDictionary.org
  18. butterfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. butterfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. butterfish: Cook's Thesaurus

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  1. butterfish: Encyclopedia

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  1. butterfish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See butterfishes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (butterfish)

noun:  Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
noun:  Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
noun:  A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
noun:  The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (informal) A sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria).

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