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1. (n.) turbot
a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body.
2. turbot
any of several other flatfishes.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME turbut < AF; OF tourbot < ML turb(ō) turbot + OF -ot n. suffix)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) turbot
flesh of a large European flatfish
2. (noun) turbot, Psetta maxima
a large brownish European flatfish
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) turbot
a large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke
2. (noun) turbot
any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California
3. (noun) turbot
the filefish; -- so called in Bermuda
4. (noun) turbot
the trigger fish
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