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tur⋅bot

  [tur-buht]
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–noun, plural (especially collectively) -bot, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -bots.
1. a European flatfish, Psetta maxima, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.
2. any of several other flatfishes.
3. a triggerfish.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME turbut < AF; OF tourbot < ML turb(ō) turbot (L: top; appar. applied to the fish because of its outline; see turbine, turbit ) + OF -ot n. suffix
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tur·bot   (tûr'bət)   
n.   pl. turbot or tur·bots

  1. A European flatfish, Scophthalmus maximus, that has a brown knobby upper side and is prized as food.

  2. Any of various flatfishes similar or related to this fish.


[Middle English turbut, from Old French tourbout, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Swedish törnbut : törn, thorn + but, flatfish; see bhau- in Indo-European roots.]
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turbot 
"large flat fish," c.1300, from O.Fr. turbut (12c.), probably from a Scand. source (cf. O.Swed. törnbut, from törn "thorn" + but "flatfish;" see halibut). But OED says of uncertain origin and speculates on a connection to L. turbo "spinning top."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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