DRIFTFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does driftfish mean? 

• DRIFTFISH (noun)
  The noun DRIFTFISH has 2 senses:

1. larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico

2. small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide

  Familiarity information: DRIFTFISH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIFTFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("driftfish" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("driftfish" is a member of...):

Ariomma; genus Ariomma (a genus of Stromateidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("driftfish" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("driftfish" is a member of...):

genus Psenes; Psenes (a genus of Stromateidae)