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Definition of Halibuts
1. halibut [n] - See also: halibut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halibuts
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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