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flatfish /ˈflatfɪʃ /noun (plural same or flatfishes)A flattened marine fish that swims on its side with both eyes on the upper side. They live typically on the seabed and are coloured to resemble it.- Order Pleuronectiformes: several families, in particular Bothidae (left-eye flounders), Pleuronectidae (right-eye flounders), and Soleidae (soles).
The California halibut is a flatfish with an oblong, compressed body and a large, powerful, broad tail....- Today we can read the course of this evolution in the development of a flatfish.
- The plaice is one of the smaller flatfish found around the British coast.
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