NOUN | animal | lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder | flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head |
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Meaning | flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. | |
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Synonym | lefteyed flounder | |
Member of | Bothidae, family Bothidae | A family of fish of the order Heterosomata |
Narrower | brill, Scophthalmus rhombus | European food fish |
grey flounder, gray flounder, Etropus rimosus | Flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico | |
sand dab | small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | |
southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigmus | flounder of southern United States | |
summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus | flounder of eastern coast of North America | |
turbot, Psetta maxima | A large brownish European flatfish | |
whiff | A lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil | |
windowpane, Scophthalmus aquosus | Very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America | |
Broader | 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 |
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