turbot
Americannoun
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turbot,
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turbots
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a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.
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any of several other flatfishes.
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a triggerfish.
noun
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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
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any of various similar or related fishes
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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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The Dungeness crabs, Boston lobsters, turbot and other future meals signaled Taste of MP’s seafood credentials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
Diana is reported to have ordered an appetizer of mushrooms and asparagus, and then sole; for Dodi, turbot.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
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
Brill, bril, n. a fish of the same kind as the turbot, spotted with white.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Soles, turbots, and other flatfish are, as is well known, unsymmetrical.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
Were turbots then less common in the seas?
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John
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 Walpole, Horace
As for friends, lampreys and turbots beget them, and they spawn not amid the solitude of the Apennines.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Great turbots and dishes bring great disgrace along with them, together with expense.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
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