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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#m1)

2) Both its eyes end up on the upper side of its head as it grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#x1)
- Plaice is a flatfish with orange spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#x2)
- Young flatfish swim upright until one eye moves over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#x3)
- The flatfish changed colour to match the gravel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#x4)
- Halibut is the largest flatfish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#x5)
- We saw a flatfish in the rock pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flatfish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flatfish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.