american plaice

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   large American food fish

   SynonymsHippoglossoides platessoides

   Broaderrighteye flounder

Questions about american plaice

What does american plaice mean?

american plaice means "large American food fish".

What is another word for american plaice?

Close synonyms include Hippoglossoides platessoides. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american plaice a common word?

american plaice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.