Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
  • noun The shad-waiter or pilot-fish, Coregonus quadrilateralis; the Menomonee whitefish, abundant in the Great Lake region and northward. See cut under shad-waiter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.
  • noun A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any fish that is not a flatfish.
  • noun Prosopium cylindraceum, the round whitefish.

Etymologies

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round +‎ fish

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Examples

  • For a graph of catch biomass of pollock, other roundfish, flatfish and invertebrates in the Eastern Bering Sea from 1954 to 1998, see Schumacher et al.,

    East Bering Sea large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Fish can be categorized into two groups: roundfish, such as salmon, cod, and sea bass, whose eyes are on either side of the head; and flatfish, such as halibut and sole, whose eyes seem to be on the same side of the head.

    THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003

  • Fish can be categorized into two groups: roundfish, such as salmon, cod, and sea bass, whose eyes are on either side of the head; and flatfish, such as halibut and sole, whose eyes seem to be on the same side of the head.

    THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003

  • Fish can be categorized into two groups: roundfish, such as salmon, cod, and sea bass, whose eyes are on either side of the head; and flatfish, such as halibut and sole, whose eyes seem to be on the same side of the head.

    THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003

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