driftfish

English Thesaurus

1. small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish,
definition	:	small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus psenes, psenes,
definition	:	a genus of Stromateidae (noun.animal)

2. larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish,
definition	:	small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	ariomma, genus ariomma,
definition	:	a genus of Stromateidae (noun.animal)