plural turbot also turbots
1
: a large European flatfish (Scophthalmus maximus synonym Psetta maxima) that is a popular food fish and has a brownish upper surface marked with scattered tubercles and a white undersurface
2
: a flatfish (such as Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) resembling the turbot
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The sample menu starts at 250 pounds a person with a taste of an oyster vichyssoise that uses imperial gold caviar, buttermilk and dill; scallops from the Isle of Skye with pumpkin, nori, and pine créme, and a Cornish turbot made with morteau sausage, thyme, black garlic and yellow wine.
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Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
Mild and flaky filets like flounder, halibut, perch, any snappers and turbot are great in stews, soups, rice dishes, or even battered or breaded and fried.
—Noah Galuten, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Guests eventually took their places around a long table with decanters neatly lined up and reflecting the flickering light dozens of candles, to tuck into a menu of mousseline brioche, sliced wild sea bass with lime leaf and turbot roasted with chives — or beef Wellington — and chocolate entremet.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 23 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, hundreds of gold Vs surrounded the main dish of turbot with fall vegetables, hoisted to mouths with weighty Vuitton forks with a tubular handle.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024
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Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
Mild and flaky filets like flounder, halibut, perch, any snappers and turbot are great in stews, soups, rice dishes, or even battered or breaded and fried.
—Noah Galuten, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Guests eventually took their places around a long table with decanters neatly lined up and reflecting the flickering light dozens of candles, to tuck into a menu of mousseline brioche, sliced wild sea bass with lime leaf and turbot roasted with chives — or beef Wellington — and chocolate entremet.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 23 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, hundreds of gold Vs surrounded the main dish of turbot with fall vegetables, hoisted to mouths with weighty Vuitton forks with a tubular handle.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for turbot
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“Turbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turbot. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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