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Halibut

//ˈhæ.lɪ.bət// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.

    "[...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut."

  2. 2
    marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes wordnet
  3. 3
    lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English *halibutt, equivalent to holy + but (“flatfish”), since the fish was often eaten on holy days. Cognate with Dutch heilbot, German Heiligbutt, Heilbutt, Heilbutte, Danish helleflynder, Swedish helgeflundra, and Norwegian Nynorsk hellefisk.

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