flatfish in English

noun

1

a flattened marine fish that swims on its side with both eyes on the upper side. They live typically on the seabed and are colored to resemble it.

The California halibut is a flatfish with an oblong, compressed body and a large, powerful, broad tail.

Use "flatfish" in a sentence

1. Some flatfish can camouflage themselves on the ocean floor.

2. Benthic fish which can bury themselves include dragonets, flatfish and stingrays

3. 13 Bournemouth beaches produced odd flounder at night with pout, rockling and flatfish at Friars Cliff.

4. Brill definition, a European flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus, closely related to the turbot

5. Brill definition is - a European flatfish (Scophthalmus rhombus synonym Bothus rhombus of the family Bothidae); broadly : turbot.

6. Flatfish are an order of ray-finned Benthic fishes which lie flat on the ocean floor

7. These include some species of flatfish (predominantly long rough dabs, solenettes, topknots) and roundfish (such as gurnards, catfish, weevers).

8. Brill or Brills An edible flatfish of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea

9. Brill is a flatfish with a distinctive dark brown skin speckled with white and creamy white underside flesh

10. Brill has smooth, dark-brown skin with intense white speckling, and as with other flatfish, its underside is creamy-white

11. Pl. Brill or Brills An edible flatfish (Scophthalmus rhombus) of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea

12. Pl. brill or Brills An edible flatfish (Scophthalmus rhombus) of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea

13. What does Brill mean? An edible flatfish (Scophthalmus rhombus) of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea

14. Brill is an underrated flatfish related to the highly-prized turbot, with similarly sweet and firm flesh (but it thankfully tends to be on the cheaper side)

15. The European flounder (Platichthys flesus) is a flatfish of European coastal waters from the White Sea in the north to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the south.

16. The Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) is also sometimes titled the largest flatfish, although it has a slightly smaller maximum size, at 320 kg (710 lb) and 2.8 m (9.2 ft).

17. The Brill (Scophthalmus rhombus) is a species of flatfish in the turbot family (Scophthalmidae) of the order Pleuronectiformes. Brill can be found in the northeast Atlantic, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and Mediterranean, primarily in deeper offshore waters.