turbot
Americannoun
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turbot,
plural
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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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Viewers may emerge from “The Taste of Things” desperate to find a restaurant that serves a good vol-au-vent, a turbot in hollandaise sauce or the meringue-coated ice cream confection known as baked alaska.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
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
The Dungeness crabs, Boston lobsters, turbot and other future meals signaled Taste of MP’s seafood credentials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 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
We saw a turbot yawn twice, and a cod once.
From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair
Cod, codlings, halibut, skate, sturgeon, soles, salmon, gurnets, haddock, whiting, sometimes turbots come with the soles, herrings, perch, pike, carp, tench, eels, lobsters, crabs, crawfish, muscles, cockles, prawns, shrimps, Thames flounders, and smelts.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
Tommy says that Gherkins wear turbots on their heads.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
One that uses the net so called, for turbots, soles, sandlings, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
And many other men had in their mouths turbots caught in the Sicilian sea, and swimming eels, and the trail of the tunny-fish of Pachynum, and kids from Melos, and mullets from Symæthus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
“Brills are generally caught at the same place as turbots, and are generally of the same quality as the turbot, from the different parts.”
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
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