PAPRILUS ALEPIDOTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paprilus alepidotus mean? 

• PAPRILUS ALEPIDOTUS (noun)
  The noun PAPRILUS ALEPIDOTUS has 1 sense:

1. butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina

  Familiarity information: PAPRILUS ALEPIDOTUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPRILUS ALEPIDOTUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

harvestfish; Paprilus alepidotus

Hypernyms ("Paprilus alepidotus" is a kind of...):

butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish (small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines)

Holonyms ("Paprilus alepidotus" is a member of...):

genus Paprilus; Paprilus (a genus of Stromateidae)