单词 | american plaice |
释义 | > as lemmasAmerican plaice a. A European flatfish of shallow seas, Pleuronectes platessa (family Pleuronectidae), which is brown with orange spots and a white underside, and is an important food fish. Also: any of various other flatfishes; esp. (a) U.S. the summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, of the North-west Atlantic; (b) New Zealand the sand flounder, Rhombosolea plebeia, of New Zealand waters; (c) (more fully American plaice) the long rough dab, Hippoglossoides platessoides, of the North Atlantic. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > genus Pleuronectes > pleuronectes platessa (plaice) schullea1300 buttc1300 plaicec1300 plaice-fluke1596 suanta1609 sea sparrow1672 c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 896 He bar up wel a carte lode..of playces brode. 1366 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 45 In plais et sperlinges emptis, 6 s. 3 ½ d. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 437 (MED) Gele of Flesshe. Take vell or pyggus or capons or hennus..and if hit be on fyssh day, make hit on the same manere of playsse or of codlynge. 1469 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 102 (MED) A playys, iij d., saltefyhs and saltesamon, vij d. a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 81 (MED) Tho pyke and tho perche, tho symen and tho roche, Tho pleyse and tho macrell, yit were there moo. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vne Plie, a fishe called a Place. 1617 Janna Ling. 100 Aswell soles as plaises are inclosed in the net. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 18 Soale and Playce..follow the tide into the fresh rivers. 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 40 Their Rivers are plentifully furnish'd with..Place, Pearch, Trouts [etc.]. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. v. 49 The Plaice is on the upper part of a dirty olive-colour, or brown, and speckled with round red spots. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 131 Those fish that are usually denominated Flat-fish, as the Plaise, Flounder, Sole, &c. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxvii. §539. 502 Few imagine that, in applying the terms back and belly to the upper and under surfaces of a Plaice or a Turbot, they are adopting a phraseology quite inadmissible in an anatomical point of view. 1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The smooth plaice, or smooth-backed flounder, is Pleuronectes glaber. 1901 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1900 33 559 The flounder, or patiki, wrongly named ‘plaice’. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 436 The larvae of flat-fishes of the plaice and sole type are at first bilaterally symmetrical, with an eye on each side of the head and an unflattened body. 1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea I. i. 6 These..form the food of the fish such as cod, haddock, and plaice which roam the sea-floor in search of them. 1995 Times 29 Mar. 8/2 They claim to have retrieved 25 tonnes of American plaice, a banned catch. < as lemmas |
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