sand dab

noun

Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.

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nounsand dab (plural sand dabs)

plural sand dabs · alternative sanddab

  1. Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.

    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.

    2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees, New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336
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