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Halibut

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Noun

1. halibut

lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific

2. halibut, holibut

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Halibut

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noun plural -buts or -but
1. 
the largest flatfish: a dark green North Atlantic species, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, that is a very important food fish: family Pleuronectidae
2. 
any of several similar and related flatfishes, such as Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Greenland halibut)

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Halibut

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nounWord forms: plural ˈhalibut or ˈhalibuts
any of a genus (Hippoglossus, family Pleuronectidae) of large, edible flounders found in northern seas, esp. the Atlantic species (H. hippoglossus), which may exceed 45 kg (c. 100 lb)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Halibut

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n. pl. halibut or hal·i·buts
Any of several large edible flatfishes of the genus Hippoglossus and related genera, of northern Atlantic or Pacific waters.

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