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Definition of Tongue-fish

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tongue-fish

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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