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Webster 1913 Edition


Plaice

Plaice

,
Noun.
[F.
plaise
,
plais
, prob. fr. L.
platessa
flatish, plaice. See
Place
.]
(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

Noun

plaice (plural plaice or plaices)

  1. Several similar marine flatfish of family Pleuronectidae of right-eye flounders:
    1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
    2. Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
    3. Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
    4. Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
    5. Liopsetta glacialis (polar plaice)

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Irish

Noun

plaice f

  1. 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.