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butterfish
butterfish is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
- 2noun
slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
- 3noun
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
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- 4noun
any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
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