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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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
Soles, turbots, and other flatfish are, as is well known, unsymmetrical.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
There's Alderman Toad and his lady, 'Twas they gave the Clart and the Poort, And the poine-apples, turbots, and lobsters, To feast the Lord Liftinint's Coort.
From Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
