Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of plaice, Pleuronectes glaber: so called from the readiness with which it takes any bait.
  • noun A balistoid fish, Monacanthus hispidus; the long-finned file-fish: so called from its method of swimming with a wriggling motion with its mouth upward, by means of undulations of its dorsal fin.

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

  • noun The orange filefish. See filefish.
  • noun The winter flounder. See flounder.

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

  • noun filefish
  • noun winter flounder

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