turbot
noun
a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.
turbots
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pluralof turbot.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Were turbots then less common in the seas?
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
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 Walter Savage Landor
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
Great turbots and dishes bring great disgrace along with them, together with expense.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
“Why, you don’t catch turbots here, and like this?”
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
