Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of plaice, Pleuronectes glaber: so called from the readiness with which it takes any bait.
- noun A balistoid fish, Monacanthus hispidus; the long-finned file-fish: so called from its method of swimming with a wriggling motion with its mouth upward, by means of undulations of its dorsal fin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The orange filefish. See
filefish . - noun The winter flounder. See
flounder .
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- noun
filefish - noun winter flounder
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