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ˈbutter-fish
Any of several fishes having a slippery coating of mucus, esp. the Gunnel found in British waters; the Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli, a fresh-water fish of Australia; the kelp fish of New Zealand (see quot. 1880); the dollar-fish, Stromateus or Poronotus triacanthus, a food-fish of the eastern U.S.
1674Ray (Sea) Fishes, Coll. 104, 56 Butter-Fish. 1740R. Brookes Art Angling ii. xviii. 123 The Butter-Fish or Gunnel..sometimes attains the Length of six Inches..is taken frequently on the Cornish Coast. 1842J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. iv. 153 The American Butter-fish, Gunnellus mucronatus. 1850J. B. Clutterbuck Port Phillip iii. 44 In the bay are large quantities of..butter-fish. 1880Günther Fishes 533 The ‘butter-fish’, or ‘Kelp-fish’ of the colonists of New Zealand (C[oridodax] pullus), is prized as food. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes N.S. Wales 12 H[aplodactylus] obscurus,..known to our southern fishermen as the ‘butter-fish’, is highly esteemed. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 179 The Butter-fish is an excellent and delicate morsel. 1888G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 221 The ‘Butter-fish’ of Massachusetts and New York, Stromateus triacanthus. Ibid. 232 [Selene setipinnis] is a frequent summer visitor all along the coast as far north as Woods Holl, Mass., where it has a peculiar name,..the ‘Hump-backed Butterfish’. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1968) xxii. 393 One of them little butter-fish, all fins and flaps. 1962K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyology xiv. 443 Among the many other fishes of the neritic zone are the..butter-fishes (Stromateidae). |