- a type of fish - Edible flatfish - European flatfish - Food fish - Type of fish - A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the
flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. - A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called
also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes
applied to other allied species.
- Edible flatfish - European fish - Flatfish - 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. - The trigger fish.