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Definition of plaice

Plaice
Plaice Plaice, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See Place.] (Zo["o]l.) (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.] --B. Jonson.

Meaning of plaice from wikipedia

- Plaice is a common name for a group of flatfish that comprises four species: the European, American, Alaskan and scale-eye plaice. Commercially, the most...
- The European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), commonly referred to as simply plaice, is a species of marine flatfish in the genus Pleuronectes of the family...
- The PLAICE, or FLASH-PLAICE, is a powerful open source hardware device, combining a flash memory programmer, in-circuit emulation, and a high-speed multi-channel...
- up plaice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfishes. Plaice or PLAICE may also refer to: USS Plaice (SS-390)...
- The American plaice, American sole or long rough dab (Hippoglossoides platessoides) is a North Atlantic flatfish that belongs, along with other right-e****...
- USS Plaice (SS-390), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the plaice, one of the various American flatfish; summer...
- important food fish are in this order, including the flounders, soles, turbot, plaice, and halibut. Some flatfish can camouflage themselves on the ocean floor...
- now more often used as a condiment or dipping sauce, primarily for sole, plaice, and seafood cakes (such as crab or salmon cakes). RĂ©moulade is originally...
- Alaska plaice (Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus) is a sal****er fish that live in the North Pacific Ocean. Alaska plaice are right-eye flounders which live...
- that uses the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It was aut****d by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous after TeX development was frozen in 1991,[citation...