flatfish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++flat·fish /ˈflætˌfɪʃ/ noun (plural flatfish) [countable] HBFa type of sea fish with a thin flat body, such as cod or plaice 比目鱼〔扁平的海鱼，如鳕鱼、鲽鱼等〕 →5 see picture at 见图 fish1
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flatfish• Bournemouth beaches produced odd flounder at night with pout, rockling and flatfish at Friars Cliff.• The whole skull of a bony flatfish retains the twisted and distorted evidence of its origins.• We see this process of moving round re-enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish.• The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays, large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters.• Incidentally, some species of flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.• There is not a smooth trajectory connecting these bony fish ancestors to flatfish lying on their belly.• A young flatfish starts life swimming near the surface, and it is symmetrical and vertically flattened just like a herring.flat·fish nounChineseSyllable
a of thin type sea Corpus fish flat with a
flatfish
flat‧fish /ˈflætˌfɪʃ/
noun (plural flatfish) [countable]
a type of sea fish with a thin flat body, such as cod or plaice
flat‧fish /ˈflætˌfɪʃ/
noun (plural flatfish) [countable]a type of sea fish with a thin flat body, such as cod or plaice