flatfish

«flatfish» in Mova's school dictionary: a fish with a flat body that lies on one side on the sea… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a flatfish, flatfish or flatfishes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A flatfish is a fish with a flat body that lies on one side on the sea floor, such as a plaice, sole, flounder, halibut or turbot. tree →

2) Both its eyes end up on the upper side of its head as it grows. tree →

sense in the lessons

Science and nature lessons (adaptation, camouflage on the sea bed). Food: fish and chips can be plaice. Phrases: flatfish such as plaice.

examples

• A flatfish hides by lying flat on the sand. tree →
• Plaice is a flatfish with orange spots. tree →
• Young flatfish swim upright until one eye moves over. tree →
• The flatfish changed colour to match the gravel. tree →
• Halibut is the largest flatfish. tree →
• We saw a flatfish in the rock pool. tree →

note

Plural usually flatfish (like fish, sheep). A flatfish lies on its side, not its belly — unlike rays, which are flat from top to bottom.

In the corpora

• The mimic octopus, discovered in 1998 off Indonesia, copies the shape and movement of dangerous animals like sea snakes and flatfish.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flatfish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.