a European flatfish, Microstomus kitt, with a variegated brown body: highly valued as a food fish: family Pleuronectidae
lemon sole in American English
noun
any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
Word origin
[1875–80; prob. alter., by folk etym., of F limande dab (fish), OF limande, lime, of uncert. orig.]