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What (who) is Bering flounder - definition
Bering flounder
SPECIES OF FISH
Hippoglossoides robustus
The Bering flounder (Hippoglossoides robustus) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of up to .
flounder
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![[[Flowery flounder]], ''Bothus mancus'', <br />Bahía de la Chiva, at [[Hawaii]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flounder hawaii.jpg?width=200 "[[Flowery flounder]], ''Bothus mancus'', <br />Bahía de la Chiva, at [[Hawaii]]")
GROUP OF FISH SPECIES
Flounders; Flounder (fish); Baked Flounder; Baked flounder
(flounders, floundering, floundered)
1.
If something is floundering, it has many problems and may soon fail completely.
What a pity that his career was left to flounder...
The economy was floundering.
= founder
VERB: V, V
2.
If you say that someone is floundering, you are criticizing them for not making decisions or for not knowing what to say or do.
Right now, you've got a president who's floundering, trying to find some way to get his campaign jump-started...
I know that you're floundering around, trying to grasp at any straw.
= dither
VERB: V, V around [disapproval]
3.
If you flounder in water or mud, you move in an uncontrolled way, trying not to sink.
Three men were floundering about in the water.
VERB: V adv/prep, also V
Flounder
GROUP OF FISH SPECIES
Flounders; Flounder (fish); Baked Flounder; Baked flounder
·noun A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
II. Flounder ·noun The act of Floundering.
III. Flounder ·noun A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
IV. Flounder ·vi To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to Flounce.
