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Plaice   Listen
noun
Plaice  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.
(b)
A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. (Written also plaise)
Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. (R.)





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"Plaice" Quotes from Famous Books



... oysters. Salmon trouts. Sleeves. Cockles. Barbels, great and Sturgeons. Prawns. small. Sheath-fish. Smelts. Roaches. Mackerels. Rock-fish. Cockerels. Maids. Gracious lords. Minnows. Plaice. Sword-fish. Skate-fish. Sharplings. Soles. Lamprels. Tunnies. Mussels. Jegs. Silver eels. Lobsters. Pickerels. Chevins. Great prawns. Golden carps. Crayfish. Dace. Burbates. Pallours. Bleaks. Salmons. Shrimps. Tenches. Salmon-peels. Congers. Ombres. Dolphins. Porpoises. Fresh cods. Barn ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


Words linked to "Plaice" :   righteye flounder, genus Pleuronectes, American plaice, Pleuronectes, righteyed flounder


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