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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
2: any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1710 any of an order (Heterosomata) of marine typically bottom-dwelling bony fishes (as the halibuts, flounders, turbots, and soles) that as adults swim on one side of the laterally compressed body and have both eyes on the upper side

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flatfish Flat"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectid[ae]; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(flatfish) Flatfish are sea fish with flat wide bodies, for example plaice or sole. N-VAR