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plaice
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synonyms: righteye flounder, Pleuronectidae ???
tags: [food] [zoology]
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Definition:A flat fish that is so commonly overfished that is is now listed as "outside biological limits". The American species haul in the 1970's exceeded 100 thousand tons per year, and now only a few thousand tons are caught each year.
photo: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=479616
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Then we went to the cafe and Father had plaice and chips and apple pie and ice cream and a pot of Earl Grey tea and I had my sandwiches and I read the guidebook to the zoo.
Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, p.86 (2003)
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He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel.
Kipling. How the Whale Got His Throat.
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A pleasant land it is in sooth of murmuring waters, fishful streams where sport the gurnard, the plaice, the roach, the halibut, the gibbed haddock,
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