The turbot is a species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic, Black Sea, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Etymology The word comes from the Old Swedish törnbut (meaning thorn butt or stump) and was adopted into English and French about the same time, around the 13th century. Turbot is pronounced "turb-it". It is occasionally mispronounced "tur-bo". This is likely a back-formation based on French words ending in -ot (… (More on Turbot)