noun
1. sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
• Hypernyms: ↑saltwater fish
• Hyponyms: ↑flounder, ↑sole, ↑fillet of sole, ↑halibut
2. 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
• Hypernyms: ↑spiny-finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian
• Hyponyms:
↑flounder, ↑righteye flounder, ↑righteyed flounder, ↑halibut, ↑holibut, ↑lefteye flounder, ↑lefteyed flounder, ↑tonguefish, ↑tongue-fish, ↑sole
• Member Holonyms: ↑Heterosomata, ↑order Heterosomata, ↑order Pleuronectiformes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.