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Meaning of 'turbot'
Meaning of 'turbot' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Turbot 
[ n.]
- 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. [ n.]- 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.
- The trigger fish.
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