Sentence examples for a flatfish from inspiring English sources

Today, many marine biologists are sceptical that a flatfish would venture so deep.

The turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a flatfish with an increasing aquaculture value.

Turbot is a flatfish with sweet white meat that can in the wild grow to prodigious size.

The final swim of the day was at Calella, north of Barcelona, where we saw a colony of shags and a flatfish.

When a flatfish hovers in the water, Ball tells us, sensors on its underbelly register the color and brightness of the surface below — information the fish uses to reproduce the look on its upper body, so that it matches its background.

In an instant, the animal can change its shape and the color and texture of its skin to resemble nearly anything: a flatfish, a crab, a block of coral, a frond of algae; surely, it could mimic a chameleon if it needed.

The megrim - a small flatfish with a sandy brown body - is also being recommended and the boneless, chunky flesh of huss is to be touted as an alternative to cod and haddock in the fish and chip trade.

This result confirms previous findings in trout [ 14] and in orange-spotted grouper [ 94]; only Tingaud-sequeira et al. recently published in a marine flatfish ovary a different pattern of apoC1 expression, where its transcript levels significantly increase solely during follicle atresia following ovulation but not during follicle growth or maturation [ 95].

The Indonesia Mimic Octopus doing an impersonation of a toxic flatfish.

So I raised an eyebrow when at The Winding Stair in Dublin a dish of plaice (a delicate flatfish that doesn't come to the US side of the Atlantic) was topped with capers, chorizo and not the usual anchovies but the pickled "white" ones as they're sometimes called.

A baked flatfish such as brill or Dover sole or a crab risotto is in order.