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Look up: plaice

  1. Plaice
    Plaice is any of various flatfishes of the flounder group, especially the genera Pleuronectes and Hippoglossoides.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

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

  3. 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 weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder ( Paralichthys dentatus ; called also brail , puckerm ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/99

  4. 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 species. ... Alternative forms: plaise] Plaice mouth, a ...
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  5. plaice
    Pleuronectes platessa noun large European food fish
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. plaice
    noun flesh of large European flatfish
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Plaice
    `Plaice` is the common name of three species of flatfishes: * Alaska plaice, `Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus`. * American plaice, `Hippoglossoides platessoides`. * European plaice, `Pleuronectes platessa` `Plaice` can also mean: * USS Plaice (SS-390), a Balao-class submarine * PLAICE, an open source hardware FLASH programmer, memory emulator, and logic analyzer Category:Fish common name disambiguation simple:Plaice
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaice

  8. 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. The platform-independent control software is written in Java, and contains plugins for I2C and SPI protocol analyzers.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLAICE

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. plaice
    1. flesh of large European flatfish
    2. large European food fish

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


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