See also: Plaice

English edit

 
Hippoglossoides platessoides
American plaice

Etymology edit

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.

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Noun edit

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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plaice f

  1. genitive singular of plaic

Mutation edit

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 edit

Noun edit

plaice

  1. Alternative form of playce