Tûr'bot, n.

[Fr. turbot, W. torbut, Ir. turbit, Gael. turbatí, Arm. turboden, tulboxen, O. D. turbot, N.D. tarbot, perhaps from Lat. turbo, a top. Cf. THORNBUT.] A flat fish of the genus Rhombus (R. maximus), with a body nearly circular. It grows to the weight of twenty or thirty pounds, and is much esteemed by epicures.

The name is applied, in Scotland, to the halibut.