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# plaice

noun (plaice, plural plaice)

«plaice» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A plaice is a flat sea fish with brown skin and orange spots, eaten as food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/#m1)

### In the lessons

a sea fish named in a rhyme about fish that live in the sea

### Examples

- We had plaice and chips for lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/#x1)
- The fisherman caught three plaice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/#x2)
- Plaice lie flat on the sea floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/#x3)

### Note

Plaice is the same in the plural: 3 plaice means 3 fish, so count them one by one.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plaice» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«plaice» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/plaice.html) on Mova free.