Definition of Psetta

1. Noun. A genus of Bothidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Psetta
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Bothidae, Family Bothidae
Member holonyms: Psetta Maxima, Turbot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psetta

Prussianisms
Prussians
Prutenic
Przevalski's horse
Przewalski's horse
Przewalski's horses
Príncipe
Ps.
Psa.
Psalms
Psalter
Psaltriparus
Psenes
Psephurus
Psephurus gladis
Psetta
Psetta maxima
Psettichthys
Psettichthys melanostichus
Pseudacris
Pseudaletia
Pseudaletia unipuncta
Pseudechis
Pseudechis porphyriacus
Pseudemys
Pseudemys concinna
Pseudemys rubriventris
Pseudemys scripta
Pseudepigrapha
Pseudobombax

Literary usage of Psetta

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

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"But the word " rhombus," Cuvier says, which ordinarily means the common turbot, here means the psetta of the Greeks, the Pleuronectes rhombus of ..."

2. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"The other nominal species of RHOMBUS are synonyms of the Turbot, psetta MAXIMA (L.). ... is not acceptable, EUROPUS and psetta. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"275) for psetta (p. 687), and the like. Such are simple enough, but there are some names which Professor Bridge evidently introduced without knowing what ..."

4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitiesby William George Smith, Charles Anthon by William George Smith, Charles Anthon (1870)
"... with the accusative of the thing voted. As to this?, ace Schumann, De Com., 123. •psetta (i^rra), a species of fish, mentioned by ..."

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