dace
See also: Dace
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From Old French dars, nominative form of dart (“dace”). For a similar loss of r, compare bass.
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dace (plural dace or daces)
- A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four[1], Part One, Chapter 3:
- Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
- (US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
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Leuciscus leuciscus
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dace f pl or n pl
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dace f pl