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a flatfish so prized chefs invented a special pan just to cook it
means A large, prized European flatfish with a diamond-shaped body, valued for its firm white flesh.
from From Old French 'tourbout,' likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source — Old Swedish 'törnbut' — where 'törn' means 'thorn' and 'but' means 'flatfish,' a nod to the bony tubercles studding the fish's skin. So the name quietly calls it the 'thorny flatfish,' the second half being a cousin of the same '-but' that surfaces in 'halibut.'
- camouflage king
- changes skin pattern to match the seabed
- both eyes left
- one eye migrates across its skull while growing
- bony armor
- skin studded with bony lumps, not scales
- dedicated cookware
- the diamond-shaped turbotière exists only for it
- ambush hunter
- lies buried, then erupts on passing fish