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A flatfish is a member of the order Pleuronectiformes of ray-finned demersal fishes , also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes . In many species, both eyes lie on one side of the head, one or the other migrating through ...
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.
WordNet
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n. sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets 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 [also: flatfishes ...
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. ...
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.