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flounder
(encz) | flounder,flundra (ryba) n: [zoo.] Jiří Dadák |
flounder
(encz) | flounder,platýs n: [zoo.] Jiří Dadák |
flounder
(encz) | flounder,zmítat se Pavel Machek |
Flounder
(gcide) | Flounder \Floun"der\, n. [Cf. Sw. flundra; akin to Dan. flynder,
Icel. fly?ra, G. flunder, and perh. to E. flounder, v.i.]
1. (Zool.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectid[ae], of
many species.
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Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus.
There are several common American species used as food;
as the smooth flounder (P. glabra); the rough or
winter flounder (P. Americanus); the summer flounder,
or plaice (Paralichthys dentatus), Atlantic coast;
and the starry flounder (Pleuronectes stellatus).
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2. (Bootmaking) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
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Flounder
(gcide) | Flounder \Floun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floundered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Floundering.] [Cf. D. flodderen to flap, splash
through mire, E. flounce, v.i., and flounder the fish.]
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to
struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to
roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
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They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
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Flounder
(gcide) | Flounder \Floun"der\, n.
The act of floundering.
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flounder
(wn) | flounder
n 1: flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
2: any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
v 1: walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the
heavy snow" [syn: stagger, flounder]
2: behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in
college" |
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gray flounder
(encz) | gray flounder, n: |
lefteye flounder
(encz) | lefteye flounder, n: |
lefteyed flounder
(encz) | lefteyed flounder, n: |
righteye flounder
(encz) | righteye flounder, n: |
righteyed flounder
(encz) | righteyed flounder, n: |
southern flounder
(encz) | southern flounder, n: |
summer flounder
(encz) | summer flounder, n: |
winter flounder
(encz) | winter flounder, n: |
yellowtail flounder
(encz) | yellowtail flounder, n: |
craig flounder
(gcide) | Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[=a]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make
fast. Cf. Pale a stake, Pact.]
1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been
removed; as, specifically:
(a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front
axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which
the carriage is guided and held back.
(b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
(c) A Maypole. See Maypole.
(d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a
sign by barbers and hairdressers.
(e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines,
are trained.
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2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5?
yards, or a square measure equal to 30? square yards; a
rod; a perch. --Bacon.
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Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily
trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
Pole flounder (Zool.), a large deep-water flounder
(Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern
coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food
fish; -- called also craig flounder, and pole fluke.
Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a
lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord
passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle,
and the other to an elastic pole above.
Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or
from a single tree.
Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis
meets the surface.
Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the
tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters.
It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.
[1913 Webster]Craig flounder \Craig" floun`der\ (kr[=a]g" floun`d[~e]r).
[Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag.] (Zool.)
The pole flounder.
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Craig flounder
(gcide) | Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[=a]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make
fast. Cf. Pale a stake, Pact.]
1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been
removed; as, specifically:
(a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front
axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which
the carriage is guided and held back.
(b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
(c) A Maypole. See Maypole.
(d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a
sign by barbers and hairdressers.
(e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines,
are trained.
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2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5?
yards, or a square measure equal to 30? square yards; a
rod; a perch. --Bacon.
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Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily
trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
Pole flounder (Zool.), a large deep-water flounder
(Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern
coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food
fish; -- called also craig flounder, and pole fluke.
Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a
lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord
passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle,
and the other to an elastic pole above.
Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or
from a single tree.
Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis
meets the surface.
Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the
tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters.
It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.
[1913 Webster]Craig flounder \Craig" floun`der\ (kr[=a]g" floun`d[~e]r).
[Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag.] (Zool.)
The pole flounder.
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Flounder
(gcide) | Flounder \Floun"der\, n. [Cf. Sw. flundra; akin to Dan. flynder,
Icel. fly?ra, G. flunder, and perh. to E. flounder, v.i.]
1. (Zool.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectid[ae], of
many species.
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Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus.
There are several common American species used as food;
as the smooth flounder (P. glabra); the rough or
winter flounder (P. Americanus); the summer flounder,
or plaice (Paralichthys dentatus), Atlantic coast;
and the starry flounder (Pleuronectes stellatus).
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2. (Bootmaking) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
[1913 Webster]Flounder \Floun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floundered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Floundering.] [Cf. D. flodderen to flap, splash
through mire, E. flounce, v.i., and flounder the fish.]
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to
struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to
roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
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They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
[1913 Webster]Flounder \Floun"der\, n.
The act of floundering.
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Floundered
(gcide) | Flounder \Floun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floundered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Floundering.] [Cf. D. flodderen to flap, splash
through mire, E. flounce, v.i., and flounder the fish.]
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to
struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to
roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
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They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
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Floundering
(gcide) | Flounder \Floun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floundered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Floundering.] [Cf. D. flodderen to flap, splash
through mire, E. flounce, v.i., and flounder the fish.]
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to
struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to
roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
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They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. --Sir
W. Hamilton.
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Pole flounder
(gcide) | Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[=a]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make
fast. Cf. Pale a stake, Pact.]
1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been
removed; as, specifically:
(a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front
axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which
the carriage is guided and held back.
(b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported.
(c) A Maypole. See Maypole.
(d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a
sign by barbers and hairdressers.
(e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines,
are trained.
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2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5?
yards, or a square measure equal to 30? square yards; a
rod; a perch. --Bacon.
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Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily
trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean.
Pole flounder (Zool.), a large deep-water flounder
(Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern
coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food
fish; -- called also craig flounder, and pole fluke.
Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a
lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord
passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle,
and the other to an elastic pole above.
Pole mast (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or
from a single tree.
Pole of a lens (Opt.), the point where the principal axis
meets the surface.
Pole plate (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the
tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters.
It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.
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spotted sand flounder
(gcide) | Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n.
1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3)
b . [In this sense, written also window pane.]
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2. (Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot ({Pleuronectes
maculatus}) remarkable for its translucency. It is not
valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot,
daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
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summer flounder
(gcide) | Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa
flatish, plaice. See Place.] (Zool.)
(a) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to
the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten
pounds or more.
(b) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus;
called also brail, puckermouth, and {summer
flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied
species. [Written also plaise.]
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Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry
mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson.
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Water flounder
(gcide) | Water flounder \Wa"ter floun"der\ (Zool.)
The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]
[1913 Webster]Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n.
1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3)
b . [In this sense, written also window pane.]
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2. (Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot ({Pleuronectes
maculatus}) remarkable for its translucency. It is not
valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot,
daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
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water flounder
(gcide) | Water flounder \Wa"ter floun"der\ (Zool.)
The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]
[1913 Webster]Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n.
1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3)
b . [In this sense, written also window pane.]
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2. (Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot ({Pleuronectes
maculatus}) remarkable for its translucency. It is not
valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot,
daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
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Winter flounder
(gcide) | Winter \Win"ter\, n. [AS. winter; akin to OFries. & D. winter,
OS. & OHG. wintar, G. winter, D. & Sw. vinter, Icel. vetr,
Goth. wintrus; of uncertain origin; cf. Old Gallic vindo-
white (in comp.), OIr. find white. ????.]
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1. The season of the year in which the sun shines most
obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
"Of thirty winter he was old." --Chaucer.
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And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
--Shak.
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Winter lingering chills the lap of May. --Goldsmith.
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Note: North of the equator, winter is popularly taken to
include the months of December, January, and February
(see Season). Astronomically, it may be considered to
begin with the winter solstice, about December 21st,
and to end with the vernal equinox, about March 21st.
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2. The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
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Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
--Wordsworth.
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Winter apple, an apple that keeps well in winter, or that
does not ripen until winter.
Winter barley, a kind of barley that is sown in autumn.
Winter berry (Bot.), the name of several American shrubs
(Ilex verticillata, Ilex laevigata, etc.) of the Holly
family, having bright red berries conspicuous in winter.
Winter bloom. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus Azalea.
(b) A plant of the genus Hamamelis ({Hamamelis
Viginica}); witch-hazel; -- so called from its flowers
appearing late in autumn, while the leaves are
falling.
Winter bud (Zool.), a statoblast.
Winter cherry (Bot.), a plant (Physalis Alkekengi) of the
Nightshade family, which has, a red berry inclosed in the
inflated and persistent calyx. See Alkekengi.
Winter cough (Med.), a form of chronic bronchitis marked by
a cough recurring each winter.
Winter cress (Bot.), a yellow-flowered cruciferous plant
(Barbarea vulgaris).
Winter crop, a crop which will bear the winter, or which
may be converted into fodder during the winter.
Winter duck. (Zool.)
(a) The pintail.
(b) The old squaw.
Winter egg (Zool.), an egg produced in the autumn by many
invertebrates, and destined to survive the winter. Such
eggs usually differ from the summer eggs in having a
thicker shell, and often in being enveloped in a
protective case. They sometimes develop in a manner
different from that of the summer eggs.
Winter fallow, ground that is fallowed in winter.
Winter fat. (Bot.) Same as White sage, under White.
Winter fever (Med.), pneumonia. [Colloq.]
Winter flounder. (Zool.) See the Note under Flounder.
Winter gull (Zool.), the common European gull; -- called
also winter mew. [Prov. Eng.]
Winter itch. (Med.) See Prarie itch, under Prairie.
Winter lodge, or Winter lodgment. (Bot.) Same as
Hibernaculum.
Winter mew. (Zool.) Same as Winter gull, above. [Prov.
Eng.]
Winter moth (Zool.), any one of several species of
geometrid moths which come forth in winter, as the
European species (Cheimatobia brumata). These moths have
rudimentary mouth organs, and eat no food in the imago
state. The female of some of the species is wingless.
Winter oil, oil prepared so as not to solidify in
moderately cold weather.
Winter pear, a kind of pear that keeps well in winter, or
that does not ripen until winter.
Winter quarters, the quarters of troops during the winter;
a winter residence or station.
Winter rye, a kind of rye that is sown in autumn.
Winter shad (Zool.), the gizzard shad.
Winter sheldrake (Zool.), the goosander. [Local, U. S.]
Winter sleep (Zool.), hibernation.
Winter snipe (Zool.), the dunlin.
Winter solstice. (Astron.) See Solstice, 2.
Winter teal (Zool.), the green-winged teal.
Winter wagtail (Zool.), the gray wagtail ({Motacilla
melanope}). [Prov. Eng.]
Winter wheat, wheat sown in autumn, which lives during the
winter, and ripens in the following summer.
Winter wren (Zool.), a small American wren ({Troglodytes
hiemalis}) closely resembling the common wren.
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blackback flounder
(wn) | blackback flounder
n 1: important American food fish in the winter [syn: {winter
flounder}, blackback flounder, lemon sole,
Pseudopleuronectes americanus] |
gray flounder
(wn) | gray flounder
n 1: flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the
eastern Gulf of Mexico [syn: grey flounder, {gray
flounder}, Etropus rimosus] |
grey flounder
(wn) | grey flounder
n 1: flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the
eastern Gulf of Mexico [syn: grey flounder, {gray
flounder}, Etropus rimosus] |
lefteye flounder
(wn) | lefteye flounder
n 1: flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head
[syn: lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder] |
lefteyed flounder
(wn) | lefteyed flounder
n 1: flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head
[syn: lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder] |
righteye flounder
(wn) | righteye flounder
n 1: flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
[syn: righteye flounder, righteyed flounder] |
righteyed flounder
(wn) | righteyed flounder
n 1: flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
[syn: righteye flounder, righteyed flounder] |
southern flounder
(wn) | southern flounder
n 1: flounder of southern United States [syn: {southern
flounder}, Paralichthys lethostigmus] |
summer flounder
(wn) | summer flounder
n 1: flounder of eastern coast of North America [syn: {summer
flounder}, Paralichthys dentatus] |
winter flounder
(wn) | winter flounder
n 1: flesh of American flounder; important in the winter [syn:
lemon sole, winter flounder]
2: important American food fish in the winter [syn: {winter
flounder}, blackback flounder, lemon sole,
Pseudopleuronectes americanus] |
yellowtail flounder
(wn) | yellowtail flounder
n 1: flesh of American flounder having a yellowish tail
2: American flounder having a yellowish tail [syn: {yellowtail
flounder}, Limanda ferruginea] |
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