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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets;

2. 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;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flatfish \Flat"fish`\, n. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster] flat foot
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flatfish n 1: sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets 2: 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