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Flatfish

noun

Sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets.

Any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side.

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"Flatfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... side, and dried it by the fire. Then we started out, and up went the kite like a bird. The wind was glorious, and it soared and strained like something alive. All at once—snap! And there was Claude, standing with a bit of cord in his hand, looking as foolish as a flatfish, and our kite sailing along at a fearful rate of speed over to ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

Words linked to "Flatfish" : tonguefish, lefteye flounder, tongue-fish, flounder, sole, order Heterosomata, righteyed flounder, holibut, European flatfish, order Pleuronectiformes, spiny-finned fish, lefteyed flounder, Heterosomata, saltwater fish, acanthopterygian, righteye flounder, fillet of sole, halibut