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What is a plaice?

What is a plaice? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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)
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There wasn't a fish shop for miles, although the local supermarket was full of breaded plaice and battered scampi.
When a customer came in and ordered haddock or plaice he was visibly nicer to them.
They seem to have also eaten flounder, whiting, plaice, cod and brown trout too.
The Northwest Atlantic's other groundfish include haddock, halibut, pollock, flounder and plaice.
I'm talking flat fish, Lemon sole, Dover sole, plaice, dabs, witch, turbot, halibut, brill and skate.
Fished in good weather and sea conditions, over eighteen different species were landed from plaice and haddock to cod and whiting.

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