flounderling
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editflounderling (plural flounderlings)
- A small or young flounder
- 1918, Richard Darwin Ware, Rediscoveries, page 102:
- On such an one I came
All inadvertently,
Splashing the shallows
Where Atlantic ebb
Was making bare
The flats,
As when one
Wading
Sets unguarded step
Upon a lurking
Flounderling.
- 1979, John L. Culliney, The forests of the sea: life and death on the Continental Shelf, page 90:
- At first flounderlings are thin-bodied but typically fishlike in other respects. Then suddenly striking anatomical changes take place, and the creature's behavior becomes fixed for an essentially two-dimensional way of life.