European flatfish highly valued as food. 欧洲非常珍贵的食用比目鱼。
flatfish flatfishes
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sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
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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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Flatfish \Flat"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any fish of the family {Pleuronectid[ae]}; esp., the winter flounder ({Pleuronectes Americanus}). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See {Flounder}.
Soon our tackle boxes bulged with spoons and flatfish, Lazy Ikes and River Runts.