Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
- noun The shad-waiter or pilot-fish, Coregonus quadrilateralis; the Menomonee whitefish, abundant in the Great Lake region and northward. See cut under
shad-waiter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other
flatfishes . - noun A lake whitefish (
Coregonus quadrilateralis ), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
fish that is not aflatfish . - noun Prosopium cylindraceum, the round whitefish.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For a graph of catch biomass of pollock, other roundfish, flatfish and invertebrates in the Eastern Bering Sea from 1954 to 1998, see Schumacher et al.,
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Fish can be categorized into two groups: roundfish, such as salmon, cod, and sea bass, whose eyes are on either side of the head; and flatfish, such as halibut and sole, whose eyes seem to be on the same side of the head.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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Fish can be categorized into two groups: roundfish, such as salmon, cod, and sea bass, whose eyes are on either side of the head; and flatfish, such as halibut and sole, whose eyes seem to be on the same side of the head.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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Fish can be categorized into two groups: roundfish, such as salmon, cod, and sea bass, whose eyes are on either side of the head; and flatfish, such as halibut and sole, whose eyes seem to be on the same side of the head.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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