PLEURONECTES PLATESSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pleuronectes platessa mean? 

• PLEURONECTES PLATESSA (noun)
  The noun PLEURONECTES PLATESSA has 1 sense:

1. large European food fish

  Familiarity information: PLEURONECTES PLATESSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLEURONECTES PLATESSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large European food fish

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

plaice; Pleuronectes platessa

Hypernyms ("Pleuronectes platessa" is a kind of...):

righteye flounder; righteyed flounder (flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head)

Meronyms (parts of "Pleuronectes platessa"):

plaice (flesh of large European flatfish)

Holonyms ("Pleuronectes platessa" is a member of...):

genus Pleuronectes; Pleuronectes (type genus of the Pleuronectidae)