name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
plaice
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Pronunciation
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plās
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/pleɪs/
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homophone: place
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noun
Meaning 2
Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
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Synonyms: plaice-fluke, Dutch plaice
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noun
Meaning 3
Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
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noun
Meaning 4
Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
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noun
Meaning 5
Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
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noun
Meaning 6
Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Liopsetta glacialis (polar plaice)
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noun
Meaning 7
large European food fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Pleuronectes platessa
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Broader terms: righteye flounder, righteyed flounder
noun
Meaning 8
flesh of large European flatfish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: flounder
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: soya — Pleuronectes platessa
- Asturian: soyu — Pleuronectes platessa
- Bulgarian: писия (pisija) — Pleuronectes platessa
- Catalan: capellà — Pleuronectes platessa
- Chinese Mandarin: 鰈 /鲽 (dié) — Pleuronectes platessa
- Czech: platýs evropský — Pleuronectes platessa
- Dutch: schol — Pleuronectes platessa
- Faroese: reyðsprøka — Pleuronectes platessa
- Finnish: punakampela — Pleuronectes platessa
- French: carrelet — Pleuronectes platessa
- French: plie — Pleuronectes platessa
- German: Scholle — Pleuronectes platessa
- Greek: πλατέσσα (platéssa) — Pleuronectes platessa
- Hebrew: שטחנון אטלנטי (shtakhnún atlánti) — Pleuronectes platessa
- Hungarian: sima lepényhal — Pleuronectes platessa
- Icelandic: koli — Pleuronectes platessa
- Irish: leathóg bhallach — Pleuronectes platessa
- Irish: plás — Pleuronectes platessa
- Japanese: プレイス (pureisu) — Pleuronectes platessa
- Norman: pliaie — Pleuronectes platessa
- Polish: gładzica — Pleuronectes platessa
- Russian: морска́я ка́мбала (morskája kámbala) — Pleuronectes platessa
- Spanish: platija — Pleuronectes platessa
- Spanish: solla — Pleuronectes platessa
- Swedish: rödspätta — Pleuronectes platessa
- Swedish: spätta — Pleuronectes platessa
- Swedish: rödspotta — Pleuronectes platessa
- Czech: platýs drsný — Hippoglossoides platessoides
- Dutch: lange schar — Hippoglossoides platessoides
- Finnish: liejukampela — Hippoglossoides platessoides
- French: flétan nain — Hippoglossoides platessoides
- Russian: ка́мбала-ёрш се́верная (kámbala-jorš sévernaja) — Hippoglossoides platessoides
- Czech: platýs žlutobřichý — Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
- German: Alaska-Scholle — Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
- Russian: ка́мбала четырёхбуго́рчатая (kámbala četyrjoxbugórčataja) — Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus