sand dab

See also: sanddab

English

Speckled sanddab

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• sanddab

Noun

sand dab (plural sand dabs)

1. Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.
   • 2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees‎^[1], New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336:

     I commanded him. “Stand up.” He looked down, his mouth disobedient and wide and flat and ugly as a sand dab’s, and would not.