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AMERICAN PLAICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American plaice mean?
• AMERICAN PLAICE (noun)
The noun AMERICAN PLAICE has 1 sense:
1. large American food fish
Familiarity information: AMERICAN PLAICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large American food fish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
American plaice; Hippoglossoides platessoides
Hypernyms ("American plaice" is a kind of...):
righteye flounder; righteyed flounder (flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head)
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