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Halibut   /hˈæləbət/   Listen
Halibut

noun
(Written also holibut)
1.
Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific.
2.
Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes.  Synonym: holibut.



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"Halibut" Quotes from Famous Books



... Passamaquoddy Bay; then passed the Grand Menan, and steered southward and eastward along the coast of Nova Scotia. A calm followed the gale; and they moved so slowly that Knox beguiled the time by fishing over the stern, and caught a halibut so large that he was forced to call for help to pull it in. Then they steered northeastward, now lost in fogs, and now tossed mercilessly on those boisterous waves; till, on the twenty-fourth of May, they saw a rocky ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... and Greenland halibut); gold, niobium, tantalite, uranium, iron and diamond mining; handicrafts, hides and skins, ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency


Words linked to "Halibut" :   flatfish, holibut, Atlantic halibut


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