yellowtail flounder

Questions about yellowtail flounder

What does yellowtail flounder mean?

yellowtail flounder means "flesh of American flounder having a yellowish tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for yellowtail flounder?

Close synonyms include Limanda ferruginea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yellowtail flounder a common word?

yellowtail flounder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.