[Irregularly f. SOLE sb.2 + -(N)ETTE.] The little sole, Monochirus linguatulus or Solea minuta.
1839. Yarrell, Suppl. Brit. Fishes, 36. The Solenette, or Little Sole.
1881. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., V. 73. The Solenette … attains a length of five inches.
1892. Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 559/2. The Solenette … is the smallest British species.
