Crossword clues for halibut
halibut
- Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific
- Marine food fish of North Atlantic or North Pacific
- The largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
- Stop to take in every second of big blue fish
- Fishy character shed clothes jumping bail
- Fish: Henry has one only
- A politician opens shelter for bottom dweller
- Large flatfish
- Large edible flatfish
- Article 21 in shed, an alternative to 8?
- Food fish
- Kind of steak
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halibut \Hal"i*but\ (h[o^]l"[i^]*b[u^]t; 277), n. [OE. hali holy + but, butte, flounder; akin to D. bot, G. butte; cf. D. heilbot, G. heilbutt. So named as being eaten on holidays. See Holy, Holiday.] (Zo["o]l.) A large, northern, marine flatfish ( Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectid[ae]. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. [Written also holibut.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A large flatfish of the genus ''Hippoglossus'', which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
WordNet
n. lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific
marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes [syn: holibut]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Halibut is a common name principally applied to the two flatfish in the genus Hippoglossus from the family of right-eye flounders. Less commonly, and in some regions only, other species of flatfish are also referred to as being halibuts. The word is derived from haly (holy) and butte (flat fish), for its popularity on Catholic holy days. Halibut are demersal fish and are highly regarded as a food fish.
Usage examples of "halibut".
During this time, John Hadley and Vincent had gone out fishing each summer, searching out bluefish and halibut, fish large enough so that you could fill up your catch in a very short time.
Reheat equal quantities of boiled and flaked lobster and halibut in Hollandaise Sauce.
Now, only a decade later, cod, haddock, and flounder were off the critical list, shrimp and halibut were once more plentiful, and schools of yellowfin and skipjack tuna were being spotted off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Dov was pleased to note that Mimsy and Courtney had dropped their feud in favor of gaping at him like a pair of beached halibut.
Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
I have ordered a halibut with anchovy sauce, mutton, and a venison pasty - simple island fare.
Rick and Scotty were the principal suppliers, but some of the scientists also enjoyed going after sea game, and the girls were good spear-fishermen who had brought home their share of striped bass, bluefish, flounder, and Atlantic halibut.
Plaice, sole, halibut and their relatives have become flat in a different way.
Nothing but Nova Scotia halibut, Columbia River salmon, and Boston scrod.
All sorts of live and recently live fish were moved across the sidewalk: snapper and halibut and mackerel, sea bass and ling cod and yellowtail, clawless Pacific lobster, Dungeness crab, ghastly monkfish, with their long saberlike teeth and a single spine that jutted from their head, bracing a luminous lure they used to draw in prey, so deep in the ocean that the sun never shone.
Seeing him steadily, if not whole, I could detect in his aspect no trace of the lamb, but he was looking so like a halibut that if he hadn't been wearing horn-rimmed spectacles, a thing halibuts seldom do, I might have supposed myself to be gazing on something a.
Together they had hauled two seventy-pound monsters out of Halibut Hole and taken the deep-running king salmon out of the channel off Sitka.
Old Morrison had started off on one of his usual happy harangues about the state of the nation, so that for the first course we had cockaleekie soup, halibut with oyster sauce, and the income tax, removed with minced chicken patties, lamb cutlets, and the Mines Act, followed by a second course of venison in burgundy, fricassee of beef, and the Chartists, with grape ices, bilberry tart, and Ireland for dessert.
In my worst moments, I'd even rather be gutting halibut in the reeking hold of an Alaskan fishing trawler or, God help me, assisting space aliens with those proctological examinations that they seem intent on giving to hapless, abducted Americans from every walk of life.