plaice

See also: Plaice

English
Hippoglossoides platessoides
American plaice

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English playce, plays, from Old French plaiz, from Late Latin platessa, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad”). See platy-, plat and flat.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: plās, IPA(key): /pleɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs
  • Homophone: place
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

plaice (plural plaice or plaices)

  1. Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
    1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
      Synonyms: plaice-fluke, Dutch plaice
    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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Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpˠlˠacɪ/

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.

Middle English

Noun

plaice

  1. Alternative form of playce
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