HOLIBUT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes

Synonyms:

halibut; holibut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("holibut" is a kind of...):

flatfish (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)

Meronyms (parts of "holibut"):

halibut (lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific)

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