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The argus-flounder is a species of flounder found in American seas.
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Ctenoid is a term applied to the scales of fishes when they are jagged or pectinated on the edge like the teeth of a comb, as in the perch, flounder, and turbot.
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Dab is a common name for several species of marine flat fish of the families Bothidae and Pleuronectidae, the flat fishes, particularly species of the genus Limanda and in North America Limanda and Citharichthys. The common dab is of a pale-brownish colour spotted with white on the side which it usually keeps uppermost, and white on the underside, and has rougher scales than the other members of the same genus. It is preferred to the flounder for the table.
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A flat-fish is a fish which has its body of a flattened form, swims on the side, and has both eyes on one side, for example as the flounder, turbot, halibut, and sole. The sense is sometimes extended to other fishes which have the body much compressed, such as the skate and other members of the ray family.
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The flounder (Pleuronectes) is one of the flat-fishes of the family Pleuronectidae. The common flounder (Pleuronectes flesus) is found in the sea and near the mouths of large rivers around the British coast. Flounders have been successfully transferred to fresh-water ponds. They feed upon Crustacea, worms, and small fishes, and are much used as food. The Argus-flounder is the Pleuroncetes argus, a native of the American seas.
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Plaice is any of various flatfishes of the flounder group, especially the genera Pleuronectes and Hippoglossoides.
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Flounder is a cultivated variety of potato.
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A cupola-ship was an iron-plated warship designed to lie low in the water, but having projecting above it a cupola or turret for firing. The original idea was put forward by Captain Cowper Coles, and was favourably reported on by the British in 1855, and further reinforced by successful experiments conducted in 1861. In 1862 the Americans adopted the concept, the Union ship Monitor being built on the cupola-ship principal and proving successful against the Confederates. Subsequently the British government also adopted the idea. The cupola-ship had the disadvantage, as proved by the Monitor, that being low in the water it was possible for them to ship enough water by the funnel to flounder at sea.
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The USS Flounder was an American Gato Class submarine of 1525 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Flounder had a top speed of 21 knots surfaced and carried a complement of between 65 and 74. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun; two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns; six 21 inch bow torpedo tubes and four 21 inch stern torpedo tubes.
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Flounder and dab is London Cockney rhyming slang for a taxi (cab).
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