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Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.

e; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret, or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]

A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

es have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

ound fish (Zoöl.), any fish which constantly lives on the botton of the sea, as the sole, turbot, halibut. -- Ground floor, the floor of a house most nearly on a level with the ground; -- called also in America, but not in England, the first floor. -- Ground form (Gram.), the stem or basis of a word, to which the oth…

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

The turbot.

sed for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.

The turbot.

A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.