dace
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French dars, nominative form of dart (“dace”). For a similar loss of r, compare bass.
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Noun[edit]
dace (plural dace or daces)
- A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four[1], Part One, Chapter 3:
- Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
- (US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
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Leuciscus leuciscus
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Romanian[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
dace f pl or n pl
Noun[edit]
dace f pl
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