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Look up: plaice

  1. plaice
    [n] - flesh of large European flatfish 2. [n] - large European food fish
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Plaice
    Plaice noun [ French plaise , plais , probably from Latin platessa flatish, plaice. See Place .] (Zoology) (a) A European food fish ( Pleuronectes platessa ), allied to the flounder, and growing to the ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/99

  3. plaice
    <zoology> A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. ... A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied spe...
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  4. plaice
    Pleuronectes platessa noun large European food fish
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  5. plaice
    noun flesh of large European flatfish
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  6. Plaice
    • (n.) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. • (n.) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. plaice
    (Pleuronectes platessa), commercially valuable European flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. The plaice, like others of its family, normally has ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/75

  8. Plaice
    USS Plaice was an American submarine of 1525 tons displacement launched in 1943 which saw action during the Second World War. USS Plaice was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 21 knots and was armed with one 4-inch gun, two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns; six 21 inch bow torpedo tubes and four 21 inch stern torpedo tubes.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. plaice
    • flesh of large European flatfish
    • large European food fish

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  10. plaice
    plaice: see flatfish.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09175

  11. Plaice
    Plaice is any of various flatfishes of the flounder group, especially the genera Pleuronectes and Hippoglossoides.
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  12. plaice
    Fish Pleuronectes platessa belonging to the flatfish group, abundant in the North Atlantic. It is white beneath and brownish with orange spots on the `eyed` side. It can grow to 75 cm/2.5 ft long and weigh about 2 kg/4.5 lb
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. PLAICE
    The `PLAICE`, or `FLASH-PLAICE`, is a powerful open source hardware device, combining a flash memory programmer, in-circuit emulation, and a high-speed multi-channel logic analyzer. It is built around a 32-bit RISC Microblaze processor, realized on a Xilinx Spartan-3E starter kit development board. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLAICE

  14. Plaice
    `Plaice` is a common name used for a group of flatfish. There are four species in the group, the European, American, Alaskan and scale-eye plaice. Commercially the most important plaice is the European plaice. This is the principal commercial flatfish in Europe. It is also widely fished recreational...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaice



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