Definition of Pleuronectes

1. Noun. Type genus of the Pleuronectidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Pleuronectes
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Pleuronectidae, Pleuronectidae
Member holonyms: Plaice, Pleuronectes Platessa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleuronectes

Pleiocene
Pleione
Pleiospilos
Pleistocene
Pleistocene epoch
Pleistophora
Pleotropic
Pleroma
Plesianthropus
Plethodon
Plethodon cinereus
Plethodon vehiculum
Plethodontidae
Pleurobrachia
Pleurobrachiidae
Pleuronectes
Pleuronectes platessa
Pleuronectidae
Pleurosorus
Pleurotus
Pleurotus ostreatus
Pleurotus phosphoreus
Pleven
Plevna
Plexiglas
Plicatoperipatus
Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
Plimmer's bodies
Plimsoll line

Literary usage of Pleuronectes

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

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"pleuronectes 1, L. They have a character which is unique among vertebrated ... Nevertheless, we find in 1 pleuronectes, is a name composed by Artedi, ..."

2. New Mallophaga by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Robert E. Snodgrass (1896)
"VII. (1.) Dr John Akx. Smith exhibited a Specimen of Block's Topknot (?) (pleuronectes punctatus, Bloch), taken near ..."

3. Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1887)
"Body not twisted at the rear, tail short, curved. Ph. pleuronectes, Fig. 120. 2. Body twisted or not at the rear, tail long, straight. Ph. longicaudus, Fig. ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"pleuronectes 1, L. They have a character which is unique among vertebrated ... Nevertheless, we find in 1 pleuronectes, is a name composed by Artedi, ..."

5. New Mallophaga by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Robert E. Snodgrass (1896)
"VII. (1.) Dr John Akx. Smith exhibited a Specimen of Block's Topknot (?) (pleuronectes punctatus, Bloch), taken near ..."

6. Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1887)
"Body not twisted at the rear, tail short, curved. Ph. pleuronectes, Fig. 120. 2. Body twisted or not at the rear, tail long, straight. Ph. longicaudus, Fig. ..."

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