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plaice(dictionary)
plaice(encyclopedia)
plaice(dictionary)
Plaice(recipes)
Hot salsa filled plaice(recipes)
Crisp fried plaice(recipes)
Roast Plaice with Pea and Butter Sauce(recipes)
A meurette of plaice and lemon sole with Beaujolais(recipes)
Fried plaice tempura and chips with tartare sauce(recipes)

extraction (oh) and Plaice (medicine)


extraction (oh)



[U and C] the process of removing or obtaining something from something else
extraction of
::the extraction of salt from seawater
::the extraction of information from appropriate Reference sources
mineral/oil etc extraction
be of French/Russian/Italian etc extraction
to be from a French, Russian etc family even though you were not born in that country

Plaice (medicine)


plaice
<zoology> A European Food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.

A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to Other allied species.

Alternative forms: plaise] Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth.

Origin: F. Plaise, plais, prob. Fr. L. Platessa flatish, plaice. See Place.

Source: Websters Dictionary