- 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.
- Freshwater fish - Slender European fish - Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of
the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more
barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The
common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
- Common european fish - Fish - Fish, often called snapper - Food fish - Freshwater fish - Pond fish - A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis,
little valued as food. Several species are known.
- Drains off European fish - Food fish - Send Ira off to get little one from school - Small sea fish - Young pilchard - Any one of several small species of herring which are
commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or
European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea
sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are
mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden. - See Sardius.