plaice
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
plaice/pleɪs/
▶noun (pl. same) a North Atlantic flatfish, brown with orange spots, which is a commercially important food fish. [Pleuronectes platessa (Europe) and Hippoglossoides platessoides (America).]
– origin ME: from OFr. plaiz, from late L. platessa, from Gk platus ‘broad’.
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