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

• Tucking into a flatfish he has just carved into strips of sashimi, Choi complains that this year's catch was the worst in a decadethe water wasn't warm enough on the right side .
• Clearly visible when the dust settled was a white flatfish about one foot long.
• He had started his turbotin Prosper Montagu by squeezing the juice of a lobster and using it to baste a slowly roasting turbot (large European flatfish).

News & Articles

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• Allen Bushnell, Fish Rap: Halibut on the move in Monterey Bay
  Either more halibut are moving in as the water warms, or our local anglers are getting better at locating the big flatfish.
  June 28, 2013 - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Quotes

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• Guenter Grass in Boston Globe (registration)
  In the book, Grass describes the drawing in the exhibit: "Long before I wrote . . . the story of the flounder as a novel, I was depicting the great flatfish with a brush, a quill, charcoal and soft lead."