dace

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They caught many fish like those of Castile--dace, salmon, hake, dory, gilt heads, mullets, corbinas_, shrimps,[175-1] and they saw sardines.

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  1. noun Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, which also includes carps and minnows.

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  • Furtive brooks led the little   boy hither and thither in his quest for trout and dace, while to the   gentler-minded the modest flowers of the wild-wood appealed with   singular directness. —  Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
  • Can-dace, Alexis and Beth stayed behind to finish up their weekend with the youth group leader, Proffit How old's this guy I don't know. —  one
  • It was a pleasant stream bordered by wide, flat meadows and the fishing was mostly barbel, chub and dace, although there were also plenty of pike to be taken with dead bait. —  No Winding Sheet-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 65
  • Moapa dace (Moapa coriacea) live in just a few warm springs in Nevada. —  Scientific American
  • FWS recovery plan (PDF) for moapa dace, published in 1983 and revised in 1996, states that a population of 6,000 fish would be required for long-term survival of the species. —  Scientific American
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  1. Middle English dace, darce, from Old French dars, from Late Latin darsus, possibly of Celtic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also darce, darse; from Middle English darce, darse, from Old French dars, a dace, same as dart, darz, a dart (Middle Latin nominative dardus); French dard, a dace, Middle Latin accusative dardum, whence also English dar, dare, a dace; so called from its swiftness: see dart'. For the changes, cf. bass, formerly barse, bace.
 

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