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Any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
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flatfish
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flatfish \Flat"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectid[ae] ; esp., the winter flounder ( Pleuronectes Americanus ). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also flat-fish , 1710, from flat (adj.) + fish (n.). So called from the shape.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flatfish is the second album, and debut studio recording, by Anglo-Irish celtic music group Flook , released in 1999 on Flatfish Records .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A young flatfish starts life swimming near the surface, and it is symmetrical and vertically flattened just like a herring. ▪ Bournemouth beaches produced odd flounder at night with pout, rockling and flatfish at Friars Cliff. ...
Usage examples of flatfish.
Flounders and other flatfish on Earth start life with the usual bilateral symmetry, with an eye on either side, like free-swimming fish.
Although the pressure at that depth was nearly 17,000 pounds per square inch, they noticed with surprise that they disturbed a bottom-dwelling flatfish just as they touched down.
If Antonia had looked, she would have seen not one bird flying in the sky, and if she had gone down to the sea, she would have seen flatfish swimming near the surface, and the other fish leaping as if they now wished to be birds and to swim in air, whilst many others pre-emptively turned turtle, and died.