English noun: flatfish |
1. | flatfish (food) sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets |
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| Broader (hypernym) | saltwater fish |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | fillet of sole, flounder, halibut, sole |
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2. | flatfish (animal) any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side |
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| Broader (hypernym) | acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | flounder, halibut, holibut, lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder, righteye flounder, righteyed flounder, sole, tongue-fish, tonguefish |
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| Member meronym | Heterosomata, order Heterosomata, order Pleuronectiformes |
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