flatfish

flatfish has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.
• n.. any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
• n.. sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets