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Turbot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Turbot has 2 senses
- turbot(n = noun.food) Array - flesh of a large European flatfish; Array is a part of psetta maxima, turbot
- turbot(n = noun.animal) psetta maxima - a large brownish European flatfish; Array is a kind of lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder
is a kind of flounder
is a member of genus psetta, psetta
has parts: turbot
CIDE DICTIONARY
Turbot, n. [F.; -- probably so named from its shape, and from L. turbo a top, a whirl.].
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 . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Turbot, n.
1 a flatfish, Scophthalmus maximus, having large bony tubercles on the body and head and prized as food .
2 any of various similar fishes including halibut.
1 a flatfish, Scophthalmus maximus, having large bony tubercles on the body and head and prized as food .
2 any of various similar fishes including halibut.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. OSw. t{ouml}rnbut f. t{ouml}rn thorn + but BUTT(3)
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