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LEFTEYE FLOUNDER

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lefteye flounder mean? 

LEFTEYE FLOUNDER (noun)
  The noun LEFTEYE FLOUNDER has 1 sense:

1. flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head

  Familiarity information: LEFTEYE FLOUNDER used as a noun is very rare.


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LEFTEYE FLOUNDER (noun)


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Meaning:

Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lefteye flounder; lefteyed flounder

Hypernyms ("lefteye flounder" is a kind of...):

flatfish (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lefteye flounder"):

Paralichthys lethostigmus; southern flounder (flounder of southern United States)

Paralichthys dentatus; summer flounder (flounder of eastern coast of North America)

Etropus rimosus; gray flounder; grey flounder (flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico)

whiff (a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil)

sand dab (small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America)

Scophthalmus aquosus; windowpane (very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America)

brill; Scophthalmus rhombus (European food fish)

Psetta maxima; turbot (a large brownish European flatfish)

Holonyms ("lefteye flounder" is a member of...):

Bothidae; family Bothidae (a family of fish of the order Heterosomata)


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