Crossword-Solution: TURBOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Turbot | n. | A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke. |
| Turbot | n. | Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California. |
| Turbot | n. | The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda. |
| Turbot | n. | The trigger fish. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “TURBOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| part0087DIAMOND-shaped fish | 1 answer |
| large European edible flatfish | 1 answer |
| flesh of a large European flatfish | 1 answer |
| a large brownish European flatfish | 1 answer |
| SCOPHTHALMUS maximus | 1 answer |
| Round-bodied flatfish | 1 answer |
| Getting up to dry fish | 1 answer |
| European angler's catch | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN scaleless fish | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN left-sided flatfish | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN carnivorous fish | 1 answer |
| Diamond-shaped flatfish | 1 answer |
| BONY-knobbed fish | 1 answer |
| "___ War" (1995 Canada-Spain fishing dispute) | 1 answer |
| Tasty flatfish | 2 answers |
| Bouillabaisse fish | 2 answers |
| Large flatfish | 3 answers |
| BRILL | 3 answers |
| EUROPEAN flounder | 3 answers |
| flounder fish | 5 answers |
| EUROPEAN flatfish | 7 answers |
| EUROPEAN food fish | 8 answers |
| Scaleless fish | 10 answers |
| Diamond-shaped pattern | 10 answers |
| Flatfish | 15 answers |
| CARNIVOROUS fish | 19 answers |
| ATLANTIC fish | 31 answers |
| EUROPEAN fish | 47 answers |
| Food fish | 100 answers |
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Sentences with TURBOT (5)
Even frequent dinners of turbot and whitebait at the sign of The Ship and Turtle will not enable one to write sea poetry.
Temple, in a letter to Lord Essex, says that "the fishing of Ireland might prove a mine under water as rich as any under ground."[9] The coasts of Ireland abound in all the kinds of fish in common use--cod, ling, haddock, hake, mackerel, herring, whiting, conger, turbot, brill, bream, soles, plaice, dories, and salmon.
Drops the wind and stops the mill; Turbot is ambitious brill; Gild the farthing if you will, Yet it is a farthing still.
The great poet who told the story of Domitian's turbot was the legitimate successor of those forgotten minstrels whose songs animated the factions of the infant Republic.
Tureens of soup are emptied with awful rapidity—waiters take plates of turbot away, to get lobster-sauce, and bring back plates of lobster-sauce without turbot; people who can carve poultry, are great fools if they own it, and people who can’t have no wish to learn.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1990–2019).