Halibut

['hælɪbət]

Definition

(noun.) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes.

(noun.) lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific.

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Definition

(n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish.

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Definition

n. the largest kind of flat-fishes in form more elongated than the flounder or the turbot.—Also Hol′ibut.

Typist: Theodore