Associations to the word «Pleuronectes»

Wiktionary

PLEURONECTES, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Pleuronectidae   — certain righteye flounders.
PLEURONECTES PLATESSA, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Pleuronectidae   — the European plaice, a commercially important flatfish.

Dictionary definition

PLEURONECTES, noun. Type genus of the Pleuronectidae.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats