\Tur"bot\, n. [F.; -- probably so named from its shape,
and from L. turbo a top, a whirl.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) 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}.
(b) 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.
(c) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
(d) The trigger fish.
{Spotted turbot}. See {Windowpane}.