[app. a. F. limande.] Used attrib. in lemon-dab, lemon-sole, names given in various parts of England to certain species of plaice or flounder.
In London lemon-sole is the fishmonger’s name for a kind of plaice somewhat resembling the true sole. In Australia this name has been transferred, through association with LEMON sb.1, to a flat-fish of a pale yellow color, and in New Zealand it is applied to the Turbot.
1835. Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr. Anim., 457. Platessa microcephala, Flem. (*Lemon Dab.)
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 18 Jan., 6/1. The … lemon-dab or queen … belong to that strange family of fish.
1876. Trans. N. Zealand Instit., VIII. 215. Ammotretis rostratus,… a fish not uncommon in the Dunedin market, where it goes by the name of *‘Lemon Sole.’
1880. E. P. Ramsay, Food-Fishes N. S. Wales, 26 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.). Plagusia unicolor … is known under the name of the lemon sole; it is of a pale olive-yellow when alive.
1890. Daily News, 8 Jan., 2/6. Prices as follows:—Soles, 1s to 1s 4d per lb;… lemon soles, 6d per lb.
