heilbot

Definitions of heilbot
  1. noun
    marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
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    type of:
    platgoed
    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
  2. noun
    lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific
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    type of:
    platgoed, platvis
    sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
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