Any of various flatfishes, as a sole, plaice, turbot, flounder, halibut, etc.

A common British and European flatfish (Solea vulgaris or solea), highly esteemed as food; one or other of the various fishes belonging to the…

= sole, n.2

In full sea partridge. A sole (the fish). Obsolete.

(see quot.).

The common sole.

a flatfish having an olive-brown body with yellowish dorsal and anal fins, Limanda aspera, which is found in temperate waters of the northern…