'Lemon sole' definitions:
Definition of 'lemon sole'
(from WordNet)
noun
Flesh of American flounder; important in the winter [syn: lemon sole, winter flounder]
noun
Highly valued almost pure white flesh [syn: lemon sole, English sole]
noun
Popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America [syn: English sole, lemon sole, Parophrys vitulus]
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Small European sole [syn: lemon sole, Solea lascaris]
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European flatfish highly valued as food [syn: lemon sole, Microstomus kitt]
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Important American food fish in the winter [syn: winter flounder, blackback flounder, lemon sole, Pseudopleuronectes americanus]
Definition of 'Lemon sole'
From: GCIDE
- Lemon \Lem"on\ (l[e^]m"[u^]n), n. [F. limon, Per. l[imac]m[=u]n; cf. Ar. laim[=u]n, Sp. limon, It. limone. Cf. Lime a fruit.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Bot.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species Citrus Limonum or Citrus Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree. [1913 Webster]
- Lemon grass (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Sh[oe]nanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery.
- Lemon sole (Zool.), a yellow European sole ({Solea aurantiaca}).
- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; -- called also {salts of sorrel}. It is used in removing ink stains. See {Oxalic acid}, under Oxalic. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]