Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun halibut

2 senses of halibut

Sense 1
halibut -- (lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific)
       => flatfish -- (sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets)

Sense 2
halibut, holibut -- (marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes)
       => flatfish -- (any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side)