plaices

Noun

plaice (plural plaice or plaices)

1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
   • Plaice, and flat fish of all kinds, are taken from the jetties at Yarmouth; and, by taking a boat, good sport may be had chopsticking for marckerel, whiting, and haddock, large quantities of these fish being caught here by this popular method.1892, Ernest R. Suffling, The Land of the Broads, Stratford: Benjiman Perry, page 306

   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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