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Princeton's WordNet

  1. plaicenoun

    flesh of large European flatfish

  2. plaice, Pleuronectes platessanoun

    large European food fish

Wiktionary

  1. plaicenoun

    The large marine flatfish, Pleuronectes platessa, commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.

  2. plaicenoun

    The flatfish, Hippoglossoides platessoides, of the North American Atlantic; American plaice.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Plaicenoun

    A flat fish.

    Etymology: plate, Dutch.

    Of flat fish there are soles, flowkes, dabs and plaice. Carew.

Wikipedia

  1. Plaice

    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 important plaice is the European. The principal commercial flatfish in Europe, it is also widely fished recreationally, has potential as an aquaculture species, and is kept as an aquarium fish. Also commercially important is the American plaice. The term plaice (plural plaice) comes from the 14th-century Anglo-French plais. This in turn comes from the late Latin platessa, meaning flatfish, which originated from the Ancient Greek platys, meaning broad.

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  1. plaice

    A plaice is a type of flatfish that is commonly found in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a smooth, brown skin with reddish or orange spots and a white underside. Plaice is also a popular fish in culinary dishes, known for its mild flavor and lean, firm texture.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Plaicenoun

    a European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more

  2. Plaicenoun

    a large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species

  3. Etymology: [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See Place.]

Wikidata

  1. PLAICE

    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 logic analyzer. It is built around a 32-bit RISC Microblaze processor, realized on a Xilinx Spartan-3E starter kit development board. The platform-independent control software is written in Java, and contains plugins for I2C and SPI protocol analyzers.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Plaice

    plās, n. a broad, flat fish, in the same genus as the flounder. [O. Fr. plaïs (Fr. plie)—Low L. platessa, a flat fish—Gr. platys, flat.]

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  1. epical

  2. piacle

  3. plicae

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of plaice in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of plaice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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