plural plaice
: any of various flatfishes
especially
: a large European flounder (Pleuronectes platessa) having red spots and used for food
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Regulars often sign up for the shop’s weekly fish share, which features a rotating cast of fresh mid-Atlantic and New England fillets, including delicate American plaice and squid that has arrived directly from Rhode Island.
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Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Opened in June 2024, its menu draws from ingredients grown on-site for dishes like delicately sweet Norwegian flatbread with butter made of truffle seaweed, sautéed fresh plaice served with baked root vegetables, and ice cream with fresh Arctic rowan leaves.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
Munk’s Plastic Fantastic, which features edible simulated plastic made from collagen and algae atop a piece of fried plaice, is a conceptual marvel that evokes the garbage clogging our seas.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
The committee reported that the new technology was already causing a decline of fish in the North Sea--not yet of cod, perhaps, those prodigious reproducers, but certainly of plaice and haddock.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Small fish like anchovies, Atlantic mackerel, catfish, flounder, haddock, mullet, plaice, pollock, and salmon as well as shellfish like clams, crab, crawfish, and oysters have the lowest levels of mercury contamination, according to the FDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
—Gia Mora, Treehugger, 8 Mar. 2023
Alex Little from Queen’s University, Canada, has found that billfishes, like swordfish and marlin, are some of the closest living relatives to the flatfishes, like plaice, sole, flounder and halibut.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2010
As babies, flatfishes like plaice and flounders look like every other fish.
—Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
Sometimes lower value species such as plaice were chucked back into the water—usually dying—because captains wanted to save room in their holds for more profitable catch like sole.
—Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
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Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Opened in June 2024, its menu draws from ingredients grown on-site for dishes like delicately sweet Norwegian flatbread with butter made of truffle seaweed, sautéed fresh plaice served with baked root vegetables, and ice cream with fresh Arctic rowan leaves.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
Munk’s Plastic Fantastic, which features edible simulated plastic made from collagen and algae atop a piece of fried plaice, is a conceptual marvel that evokes the garbage clogging our seas.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
The committee reported that the new technology was already causing a decline of fish in the North Sea--not yet of cod, perhaps, those prodigious reproducers, but certainly of plaice and haddock.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Small fish like anchovies, Atlantic mackerel, catfish, flounder, haddock, mullet, plaice, pollock, and salmon as well as shellfish like clams, crab, crawfish, and oysters have the lowest levels of mercury contamination, according to the FDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
—Gia Mora, Treehugger, 8 Mar. 2023
Alex Little from Queen’s University, Canada, has found that billfishes, like swordfish and marlin, are some of the closest living relatives to the flatfishes, like plaice, sole, flounder and halibut.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2010
As babies, flatfishes like plaice and flounders look like every other fish.
—Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
Sometimes lower value species such as plaice were chucked back into the water—usually dying—because captains wanted to save room in their holds for more profitable catch like sole.
—Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
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