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# plaice

«plaice» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat sea fish with brown skin and orange spots, eaten…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plaice, plural plaice)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/#x1)
- The fisherman caught three plaice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/#x2)
- Plaice lie flat on the sea floor. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plaice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plaice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.