halibut : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: halibut	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for halibut
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
halibut n lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes Synonym(s): halibut, holibut
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halibut \Hal"i*but\ (?;277), n. [OE. hali holy + but, butte, flounder; akin to D. bot, G. butte; cf. D. heilbot, G. heilbutt. So named as being eaten on holidays. See {Holy}, {Holiday}.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, northern, marine flatfish ({Hippoglossus vulgaris}), of the family {Pleuronectid[91]}. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish. [Written also {holibut}.]