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Plaice

noun
(pl. plaice)
1.
Flesh of large European flatfish.
2.
Large European food fish.  Synonym: Pleuronectes platessa.



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"Plaice" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make any resistance to those they felt to be their country's foes, they knew it to be best to be silent and accept the authority they had not the strength to defy. So the fishing-boats swung at anchor in the harbor, and the men lingered about the landing, or fished for plaice fish and sole from ...
— A Little Maid of Province Town • Alice Turner Curtis


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


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