| NOUN | food | flatfish | sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish |
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| animal | flatfish | 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 |
| Sounds | flae'tfih.sh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | Sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets. | |
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| Narrower | flounder | flesh of any of various American and European flatfish |
| halibut | Lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific | |
| sole, fillet of sole | Lean flesh of any of several flatfish | |
| Broader | saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food |
| Spanish | acedía, platija | |
| Catalan | palaia | |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Member of | Heterosomata, order Heterosomata, order Pleuronectiformes | flatfishes |
| Narrower | flounder | Any of various European and non-European marine flatfish |
| halibut, holibut | marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific | |
| lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder | flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head | |
| righteye flounder, righteyed flounder | flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head | |
| sole | right-eyed flatfish | |
| tonguefish, tongue-fish | left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point | |
| Broader | spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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