noun
1. highly valued almost pure white flesh
• Syn: ↑lemon sole
• Hypernyms: ↑sole, ↑fillet of sole
• Part Holonyms: ↑lemon sole, ↑Microstomus kitt
2. popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
• Syn: ↑lemon sole, ↑Parophrys vitulus
• Hypernyms: ↑sole
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parophrys, ↑genus Parophrys
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nounUsage: usually capitalized E
1. : an important pale brown market flatfish (Parophrys vetulus) of the Pacific coast of No. America distinguished by a projecting snout
2. : petrale sole
Useful english dictionary. 2012.