starry flounder

noun

: a large dark brown mottled flatfish (Platichthys stellatus) of both coasts of the north Pacific that is distinguished by a small mouth with projecting lower jaw and star-shaped tubercles scattered over the head and body and is a commercially important food fish especially along the California coast

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