flatfish's Usage Examples:

The turbot is a large flatfish which is prized for its firm white flesh and subtle, refined flavor.

Sandier areas may also bring rays and flatfish.

flatfish fisheries are very high.

However, there were plenty of other fish including this flatfish with pretty blue spots who were quite happy to almost pose for me.

Diet: Fees upon mollusks, crustaceans and small flatfish.

The boats from Kallin fish for shellfish using creels, and flatfish using long lines.

Beam trawl Beam trawls are used principally in waters shallower than 50m in depth to catch flatfish over relatively even sandy seabed.

As with other flatfish, the turbot's eggs contain a droplet of oil that makes the eggs positively buoyant.

The entrances to the inner lagoons of the Limfjord are naturally blocked against the immigration of flatfish by dense growths of sea-grass (Zostera), although the outer lagoons are annually invaded by large numbers of small plaice from the North Sea.

The herring, cod, flatfish, mackerel and sprat are taken in the seas, and also great numbers of a small herring called striimnaing.

In 1909 there were distributed from state fish hatcheries 1 531,293,721 fishes (mostly smelt, pike-perch, and winter flatfish); a large number of fish and eggs were also placed in New York waters by the United States Bureau of Fisheries.

Synonyms:

sole, halibut, righteye flounder, order Heterosomata, acanthopterygian, Heterosomata, lefteye flounder, tongue-fish, lefteyed flounder, holibut, flounder, righteyed flounder, spiny-finned fish, tonguefish, order Pleuronectiformes,

Antonyms:

shared, multiple, break, ride, soft-finned fish,