Halibut Synonyms

hălə-bət, hŏl-
Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. holibut

Words Related to Halibut

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. turbot
  2. monkfish
  3. sea-bass
  4. mackerel
  5. plaice
  6. cod
  7. hippoglossus
  8. tuna
  9. barramundi
  10. lobster
  11. line-caught
  12. hake
  13. yellowfin

Halibut Sentence Examples

  • The take of halibut is increasing steadily.

  • Large quantities of herring, plaice and halibut are also taken.

  • There are also important fisheries for cod, caplin, halibut, red fish (Sebastes) and nepisak (Cyclopterus lumpus); a shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is taken for the oil from its liver; and sea-trout are found in the streams and small lakes of the south.

  • Though fruit-trees will not bear there is an abundance of edible berries; the rivers and lakes abound with trout, perch, pike and other fish, and in the lower waters with salmon; and the cod, herring, halibut and Greenland shark in the northern seas attract numerous Norwegian and Russian fishermen.

  • Mackerel was a relatively unimportant catch until about 1821, and since then has been an important but unstable return; halibut fishing has been vigorously pursued since about 1836 and herring since about 1856.

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