halibut

Examples

• All

• Alaskan halibut fish and chips with their special tartar sauce.

• How was the halibut?

  Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

• Can you clean a halibut?

  Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007)

• We could use some halibut.

  Limbo (1999)

• Oh, my cousin went halibut fishing in in Canada.

  Ear Biscuits

• When the catch was landed, the market was flooded with a year's worth of halibut at once, reducing its value.

  Academic text (2010)

• My CA husband was amazed by the size of the halibut he pulled once on a fishing boat.

  Blog text (5)

• We put out bait that any sensible person would say would get us nothing but sculpin, and by Almighty, we got ourselves a halibut.

  The Golden Boys (2008)

• They didn't have swordfish, so I got halibut, okay?

  Personal Best (1982)

• The chef prepared a delicious roasted halibut with herbs and lemon.

Synonyms

F

fish

vshalibut

805 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

is one particular large northern bottom-dweller valued for eating

P

Pacific halibut

vshalibut

• Specialized

4.2

A large flatfish that lives in the northern Pacific and is eaten as food

is the common name covering similar large northern bottom-dwellers

H

Hippoglossus stenolepis

vshalibut

• Specialized

9.9

A large flat fish from the northern Pacific often called Pacific halibut

is the common term used for these large northern bottom-dwellers

A

Atlantic halibut

vshalibut

5.0

A large flat fish that lives in the North Atlantic and is eaten for its firm white flesh

is the general name covering both Pacific and North Atlantic large bottom-dwellers

H

Hippoglossus hippoglossus

vshalibut

• Specialized

9.9

A large flat fish from the North Atlantic that people eat

is the common general name for similar northern large bottom-dwellers

H

Hippoglossus

vshalibut

• Specialized

9.9

A large flatfish like a halibut that lives in northern oceans

is the species-level common name rather than a wider genus label

F

flatfish

vshalibut

4.0

White, lean meat from thin flat sea fish often served as fillets

is a specific large northern bottom-dweller prized for its edible flesh

Compounds

A

Atlantic halibut

5.0

A large flat fish that lives in the North Atlantic and is eaten for its firm white flesh

H

halibut-liver oil

• Specialized

6.8

A fatty oil from halibut livers that supplies vitamin A

P

Pacific halibut

• Specialized

4.2

A large flatfish that lives in the northern Pacific and is eaten as food

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology