Definition of Tongue-fish

1. Noun. Left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value.

Exact synonyms: Tonguefish
Generic synonyms: Flatfish
Group relationships: Cynoglossidae, Family Cynoglossidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tongue-fish

tonger
tongers
tonging
tongkang
tongkangs
tongman
tongmen
tongs
tongster
tongsters
tonguage
tongue
tongue-and-groove
tongue-boring
tongue-clacker
tongue-fish (current term)
tongue-flower
tongue-in-cheek
tongue-in-chic
tongue-lash
tongue-lashing
tongue-lashings
tongue-pad
tongue-pads
tongue-shaped
tongue-shell
tongue-shells
tongue-swallowing
tongue-tie
tongue-tied

Literary usage of Tongue-fish

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tongue-fish, an English name, corrupted from the French tongue, applied to young soles and other small edible flatfish found along the shores of the English ..."

2. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"8, 62), asks whether he should bring some " tongue fish" ... The tongue fish is a common name in the European languages, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tongue-fish, an English name, corrupted from the French tongue, applied to young soles and other small edible flatfish found along the shores of the English ..."

4. Transactions and Collections by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"Soles, or tongue-fish, or sea-capon, or sea-partridge. Seal, or soil, or zeal.s Sea-calf, and (as some will have ..."

5. Prose Halieutics: Or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle by Charles David Badham, David Badham (1854)
"Indeed, the trivial Greek name, the ' oxtongue,'* or simply ' tongue-fish,' names by which the sole is still recognized in Spain and Italy, would, ..."

6. Prose Halieutics: Or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle by Charles David Badham, David Badham (1854)
"Indeed, the trivial Greek name, the ' oxtongue,'* or simply ' tongue-fish, ' names by which the sole is still recognized in Spain and Italy, would, ..."

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