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left-eyed flounder
any of several flat-fishes of the family Bothidae, having both eyes on the left side of the head. -
lemon sole
any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder) -
right-eyed flounder
any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head. -
summer flounder
a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food. -
yellowtail flounder
a righteyed flounder, Limanda ferruginea, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, having a yellowish tail fin and rusty-red spots on the body: once commercially important, now greatly reduced in number. -
blackback flounder
any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)