turbot > define

noun

• Flesh of a large European flatfish.
• A large brownish European flatfish.
  • synonyms: Psetta maxima

• (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.
• (n.) The trigger fish.
• (n.) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
• (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.