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PLEURONECTES PLATESSA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large European food fish

Synonyms:

plaice; Pleuronectes platessa

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Pleuronectes platessa" is a kind of...):

righteye flounder; righteyed flounder (flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head)

Meronyms (parts of "Pleuronectes platessa"):

plaice (flesh of large European flatfish)

Holonyms ("Pleuronectes platessa" is a member of...):

genus Pleuronectes; Pleuronectes (type genus of the Pleuronectidae)

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