turbot

A flatfish, Psetta maxima syn. Scophthalmus maximus, of marine and brackish waters of Europe and North Africa, having a brown knobby upper side and prized as food.

Any of various flatfishes or other fishes that are similar to this fish.

A New Zealand fish, Ammotretis guntheri. Also called lemon-sole or yellowbelly.

One of the larger flatfishes, Psetta maxima (formerly Rhombus maximus), belonging to the family Pleuronectidæ.

In the United States, one of several large flounders more or less resembling the above, as Bothus maculatus, the sand-flounder or window-pane of the Atlantic coast, more fully called spotted turbot, and Hypopsetta guttulata, the diamond flounder of California.

The file-fish.

The trigger-fish.

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.

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.

The filefish; — so called in Bermuda.