turbot

American  

[tur-buht] / ˈtɜr bət /

noun

• turbot,
  plural
• turbots
  plural

1. a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.

2. any of several other flatfishes.

3. a triggerfish.

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turbot British  

/ ˈtɜːbət /

noun

1. a European flatfish, Scophthalmus maximus , having a pale brown speckled scaleless body covered with tubercles: family Bothidae . It is highly valued as a food fish

2. any of various similar or related fishes

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• turbot
  plural
• turbots
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of turbot

1250–1300; Middle English turbut < Anglo-French; Old French tourbot < Medieval Latin turb ( ō ) turbot ( Latin: top; apparently applied to the fish because of its outline; see turbine, turbit) + Old French -ot noun suffix

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Example Sentences

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turbot turbots

If you want to use a flat fish such as flounder, turbot or sole, your roasting time might be shorter, so start checking earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

Each course is practically a feast unto itself: vol-au-vent, roasted veal loin, poached turbot, baked Alaska — and that’s just the first half-hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

Climate change has affected Nunavut's fisheries industry, which mainly catches turbot and shrimp for export to Asia, both for better and worse.

From Reuters ● Jul. 28, 2022

Ms. von der Leyen served Mr. Johnson pumpkin soup with scallops, steamed turbot with mashed potatoes, and pavlova with exotic fruit for dessert.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2020

When the light was turned on, Sylvia saw that she was enmeshed in a mosquito-net and looking in her nightgown like a large turbot.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie

Were turbots then less common in the seas?

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington

Soles, turbots, and other flatfish are, as is well known, unsymmetrical.

From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace

We ourselves are Saxons, Danes, Normans; our neighbours are Franks, not Gauls; who the rest are, Goths, Gepidae, Heruli, Mr. Gibbon knows; and the Dutch usurped the estates of herrings, turbots, and other marine indigenae.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

I could see “schools” of small herring fry and broad round plaice, and huge turbots, and beautiful green mackerel, and great conger eels as large as boa-constrictors, all engaged in pursuits of pleasure or prey.

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read

The fish-market was most inviting—quantities of flat white turbots, shining silver mackerel, and fresh crevettes piled high on a marble slab with water running over them.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington

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