[
UK
/flˈætfɪʃ/
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[ US /ˈfɫætˌfɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫætˌfɪʃ/ ]
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
How To Use flatfish In A Sentence
- Opportunistic feeders, sea lions will eat salmon, flatfish, herring, octopus, cod, pollock whatever they can catch.
- a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost
- The 47-year-old Bellevue man admitted in court Friday that he bought more than 65 tons of flatfish called turbot from China and re-labeled it as halibut. KOMO - News - Top Stories
- Reports of dead lugworms, crabs, flatfish and dogfish have been made to the Marine Institute by local fishermen in Donegal.
- A large edible marine flatfish ( Pleuronectes platessa ) of western European waters.
- These octopuses can change their color pattern to look similar to - but not exactly like - numerous toxic and non-toxic flatfishes in their area. Science Blog
- There is not a smooth trajectory connecting these bony fish ancestors to flatfish lying on their belly.
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- Some species, such as flatfish, have actually quadrupled. Letters
- The discovery of a missing link in the evolution of bizarre flatfishes—each of which has both eyes on the same side of its head—could give intelligent design advocates a sinking feeling. The Panda's Thumb: Biological complexity Archives