spotted turbot

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spotted turbot - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Turbot \Tur"bot\, n. [F.; -- probably so named from its shape,
     and from L. turbo a top, a whirl.] (Zool.)
     (a) 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
         .
     (b) 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.
     (c) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
     (d) The trigger fish.
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     Spotted turbot. See Windowpane.
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  Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n.
     1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3)
        b . [In this sense, written also window pane.]
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     2. (Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes  maculatus
        ) remarkable for its translucency. It is not
        valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot,
        daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
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