rock gunnel

1. 1.

   slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters

   SynonymsbutterfishPholis gunnellus

   Broadergunnel

   Part ofPholis

   Partsbutterfish

Questions about rock gunnel

What does rock gunnel mean?

rock gunnel means "slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters".

What is another word for rock gunnel?

Close synonyms include butterfish, Pholis gunnellus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rock gunnel a common word?

rock gunnel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.