halibut

noun (plural same)

• a northern marine fish which is the largest of the flatfishes and important as a food fish.

  • Genus Hippoglossus, family Pleuronectidae: H. hippoglossus of the Atlantic and H. stenolepis of the Pacific
• used in names of large edible flatfishes of families other than the true halibut, e.g. Greenland halibut.