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.
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.
A big flatfish. One mid century etiquette advisor lauded the changeover from dinner service a la francaise (putting all the plates on the table so the guest could serve themselves to dinner a la russe (footmen handing everything around discreetly form diner to diner) because it meant one didnâ€(tm)t have to eat turbot so much anymore. It had been served frequently before because it looked more impressive on the table than a lot of silly fish.
A flat, firm fleshed sea fish.
flesh of a large European flatfish
a large brownish European flatfish
A flat sea fish with firm flesh.
A fairly expensive flat sea fish with good-flavoured...
Turbot (pronounced tur-bit]) (family Scophthalmidae, order Pleuronectiformes) are flatfish native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic. The taxon name comes from the Greek language, with skopein meaning "to look" and ophthalmos meaning "eye".