Definition of Halibuts

1. Noun. (plural of halibut) ¹

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Definition of Halibuts

1. halibut [n] - See also: halibut

Lexicographical Neighbors of Halibuts

halfway house
halfway houses
halfwidth
halfwidths
halfwit
halfwits
halfwitted
halfwittedly
halfwittedness
halfwittery
halfword
halfwords
halibut
halibut-liver oil
halibut liver oil
halibuts (current term)
halichondriae
halichondrid
halichondrids
halichondrin
halicore
halicores
halid
halide
halides
halidom
halidome
halidomes
halidoms
halids

Literary usage of Halibuts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... GIRARD The Bastard halibuts Body oblong; mouth large, oblique, each jaw with a single row of usually slender teeth which are more or less enlarged ..."

2. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"... their mouths distorted, and no air bladder, as the halibuts and flounders or flat-fish. These have been gathered into a sub-order and called ..."

3. Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"In another of these boxes there was a large number of great halibuts. ... The halibuts will also live from eight to nine weeks. A cod weighing fifty pounds ..."

4. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"halibuts are shaped like the Flounders, and in some cases weigh six hundred pounds. The Flounders and the halibuts are the only backboned animals which have ..."

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