What is the meaning of butterfish?

Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin.
Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines.
- synonyms: stromateid fish, stromateid
Slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters.
- synonyms: rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus

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