English > order Pleuronectiformes: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes. |
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Synonyms | Heterosomata, order Heterosomata |
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Member of | Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii | teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays |
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Members | Bothidae, family Bothidae | A family of fish of the order Heterosomata |
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Cynoglossidae, family Cynoglossidae | tonguefishes |
Pleuronectidae, family Pleuronectidae | righteye flounders |
Soleidae, family Soleidae | soles |
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 |
Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
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Spanish | Heterosomata, orden heterosomata, orden pleuronectiformes, pleuronectiformes |
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Catalan | pleuronectiformes |
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