plaice

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  1. noun A large edible marine flatfish (Pleuronectes platessa) of western European waters.
  2. noun Any of various flatfishes, such as Hippoglossoides platessoides of North American Atlantic waters, related to the plaice.

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  • It amazed Jury that someone with Wiggins's menu of maledictions still clung tenaciously to a steady diet of plaice, chips, and tinned peas The news, I imagine, is extremely unpleasant. —  dirty duck.htm
  • One thing's for sure: unless something changes soon, familiar favourites such as cod, haddock, hake and plaice will be off the menu. —  New Scientist - Space
  • At lunchtime there is a different menu of smørrebrød (open sandwiches, cold or hot) although the translation is misleading in that these are really meals such as fried, breaded fillet of plaice, accompanied by prawns and remoulade, or pork meatballs with potato mayonnaise and pickled cucumber which happen to be served with a slice of rye bread. —  Evening Standard - Home
  • In Europe, nearly two thirds of fish stocks are in decline, including some of the most popular species like cod, plaice, and sole. —  Fishupdate.com
  • Curiously flat and fish-like he was, one might have imagined his backbone to be spread like the backbone of a sole or a plaice. —  The Lost Girl
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French plais, from Vulgar Latin *platīx, alteration of Late Latin platessa, probably ultimately from Greek platus, broad; see plat- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also plaise, place; from Middle English plaice, playce, pleise, from Old French plais, plaïs, French plaise, also plateuse, plie = Spanish platija, from Late Latin platessa, a flatfish, plaice, from Greek πλατύς, flat: see plat. Cf. place, from the same ult. source.
 

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