flat-fish

I have seen them catch flat-fish and pickd up plenty for our suppers and the folks down stairs.

Letter 174 2009

Have I ever mentioned that flat-fish gross me out.

No, your other left! - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Again, the hake, the ray, the flat-fish, and the angelfish burrow in the sand, and after concealing themselves angle with the filaments on their mouths, that fishermen call their fishing-rods, and the little creatures on which they feed swim up to the filaments taking them for bits of sea-weed, such as they feed upon.

The History of Animals 2002

And you say this, my pretty flat-fish, who declared just now they might split you in two?

Lysistrata 2000

It acts very much in the same way as do flat-fish in the bottom of the sea, sinking itself under the sand, allowing the sand to lie over its back and cover it, like a flounder, only leaving its sharp eyes out of cover, and sometimes the spines on its back.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

BRILL, the name given to a flat-fish (_Psetta laevis_, or _Rhombus laevis_) which is a species closely related to the turbot, differing [v. 04 p. 0571] from it in having very small scales, being smaller in size, having no bony tubercules in the skin, and being reddish in colour.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Whenever the weather was fit, they put off in their boat but often rowed back empty-handed or with one skinny flat-fish in the bottom.

Seven Icelandic Short Stories Various

As you will see from consulting _Murray_, halibut means "holy-butt" (or flat-fish), and holy fishes are possessed of magical powers.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 Various

-- The other is the flounder (_Pleuronectes flesus_), the only flat-fish which ascends British rivers.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

The whale looks from eyes on the top of his head; the flat-fish, sole, halibut have both eyes on the same side; and certain Crustacea place the organ on a foot-stalk, as if one were to hold up his eye in his hand to include a wider horizon.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various