turbot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A European flatfish, Scophthalmus maximus, that has a brown knobby upper side and is prized as food.
2. n. Any of various flatfishes similar or related to this fish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A New Zealand fish, Ammotretis guntheri. Also called lemon-sole or yellowbelly.
2. n. One of the larger flatfishes, Psetta maxima (formerly Rhombus maximus), belonging to the family Pleuronectidæ. With the exception of the halibut, the turbot is the largest flatfish of European waters, attaining a weight of from 30 to 40 pounds. It is white on the lower or blind side; the colored upper side is of variegated dark-brownish shades, and the fins are much spotted. It is very highly esteemed as a food-fish. Also called bannock-fluke.
3. n. In the United States, one of several large flounders more or less resembling the above, as Bothus maculatus, the sand-flounder or window-pane of the Atlantic coast, more fully called spotted turbot, and Hypopsetta guttulata, the diamond flounder of California.
4. n. The file-fish.
5. n. The trigger-fish.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of various flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
2. n. Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
3. n. The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
4. n. The trigger fish.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. flesh of a large European flatfish
2. n. a large brownish European flatfish