Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Pleuronectidæ, characterized by the broad and nearly scaleless tuberculated body, whose colored side is brown with dark blotches. P. maxima is the famous turbot, next in size to the halibut among the flatfishes.
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- noun a genus of Bothidae
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Again, just as in testaceans and in plants there is what bears and engenders, but not what impregnates, so is it, among fishes, with the psetta, the erythrinus, and the channe; for these fish are in all cases found furnished with eggs.
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