plaice

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Pronunciation

• enPR: plās, IPA: /pleɪs/

Noun

plaice (plural plaice)

1. Several similar marine flatfish of family Pleuronectidae of right-eye flounders:
   1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
   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)

Translations

• French: carrelet
• German: Scholle
• Russian: морска́я ка́мбала
• Spanish: platija, solla

Translations

• French: flétan nain
• Russian: ка́мбала-ёрш се́верная

Translations

• German: Alaska-Scholle
• Russian: ка́мбала четырёхбуго́рчатая

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