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- English Word Turbot Definition A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
- English Word Turbot Definition Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
- English Word Turbot Definition The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
- English Word Turbot Definition The trigger fish.
- English Word Turbulence Definition The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation.
- English Word Turbulency Definition Turbulence.
- English Word Turbulent Definition Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
- English Word Turbulent Definition Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
- English Word Turbulent Definition Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.
- English Word Turbulently Definition In a turbulent manner.
- English Word Turcism Definition A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom.
- English Word Turcoman Definition A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.
- English Word Turcoman Definition A Turcoman carpet.
- English Word Turcomans Definition of Turcoman
- English Word Turdiformes Definition A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.
- English Word Turdus Definition A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.
- English Word Tureen Definition A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.
- English Word Tureenful Definition As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.
- English Word Tureenfuls Definition of Tureenful
- English Word Turf Definition That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
- English Word Turf Definition Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See Peat.
- English Word Turf Definition Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the.
- English Word Turf Definition To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace.
- English Word Turfed Definition of Turf
- English Word Turfen Definition Made of turf; covered with turf.
- English Word Turfiness Definition Quality or state of being turfy.
- English Word Turfing Definition of Turf
- English Word Turfing Definition The act or process of providing or covering with turf.
- English Word Turfite Definition A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg.
- English Word Turfless Definition Destitute of turf.