turbot
Noun
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A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
The trigger fish.
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Currently the largest employers on Achill are two hotels. citation In late 2009 Ireland's only Turbot farm opened in the Bunnacurry Business Park.
Halibut the size of barn doors and turbot like tabletops came into shallow water to feed.
A thick, bone-in section of turbot ($44.50) is prepared with artichoke, chorizo, white wine, and fragrant olive oil.
My hunk of local turbot made a great dish with baby Cornish veg and creamy mashed potato, but equally impressive was the friendliness and expertise of the waiters.
They held anything from turbot to sea buckthorn, from artichokes to Zeeland mussels.
Turbot and oysters from the Cotentin Peninsula are major delicacies throughout France.