stromateid fish

Questions about stromateid fish

What does stromateid fish mean?

stromateid fish means "small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines".

What is another word for stromateid fish?

Close synonyms include butterfish, stromateid. 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 stromateid fish a common word?

stromateid fish 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.