Usually means: Bottom-dwelling, sideways-swimming, marine fish.
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  1. flatfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. flatfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flatfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flatfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flatfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flatfish, flatfish: Wordnik
  7. flatfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flatfish: Wiktionary
  9. flatfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flatfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flatfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flatfish, flatfish: Dictionary.com
  13. Flatfish (album), Flatfish (shogi), Flatfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Flatfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. flatfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. flatfish: Rhymezone
  17. Flatfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. flatfish: FreeDictionary.org
  19. flatfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. flatfish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. flatfish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. flatfish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. flatfish: Legal dictionary

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  1. flatfish: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.

Similar:
righteye flounder, flounder, pleuronectiform, plaice, four-eyed fish, plaise, anglerfish, moonfish, plectognath, tilefish, more...

Opposite:
roundfish, convex fish, non-flat fish

Types:
flounder, halibut, plaice, sole, turbot, more...

Phrases:
european flatfish, more...

Adjectives:
marine, young, small, juvenile, other, large, most, important, little, european, common

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Similar:
righteye flounder, flounder, pleuronectiform, plaice, four-eyed fish, plaise, anglerfish, moonfish, plectognath, tilefish, more...

Opposite:
roundfish, convex fish, non-flat fish

Types:
flounder, halibut, plaice, sole, turbot, more...

Phrases:
european flatfish, more...

Adjectives:
marine, young, small, juvenile, other, large, most, important, little, european, common



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