HOLIBUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does holibut mean? 

• HOLIBUT (noun)
  The noun HOLIBUT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HOLIBUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLIBUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

halibut; holibut

Hypernyms ("holibut" is a kind of...):

flatfish (any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side)

Meronyms (parts of "holibut"):

halibut (lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific)