turbots

Noun

turbot (plural turbot or turbots)

1. Any member of the species Scophthalmus maximus (syn. Psetta maxima) of flatfish native to Europe.
   • “With vegetables in it, you know. Then turbot with thick sauce, then ... roast beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.”1901 [1878], Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy

   Synonyms:

   sea pheasant, turbit

2. Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.
   • Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps
3. A triggerfish (Canthidermis sufflamen).