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Webster 1913 Edition
Plaice
Plaice
,Noun.
(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.]
B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Plaice
PLAICE
Definition 2024
plaice
plaice
English
Hippoglossoides platessoides
American plaice
American plaice
Noun
plaice (plural plaice or plaices)
- Several similar marine flatfish of family Pleuronectidae of right-eye flounders:
- Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
- Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
- Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
- Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
- Liopsetta glacialis (polar plaice)
Translations
Pleuronectes platessa
Hippoglossoides platessoides
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See also
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plaice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Pleuronectes platessa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Hippoglossoides platessoides on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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Pleuronectes platessa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Irish
Noun
plaice f
- genitive singular of plaic
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| plaice | phlaice | bplaice |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||