Dace Definition

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daces
noun
daces
Any of various small, freshwater cyprinoid fishes (esp. genera Phoxinus and Rhinichthys)
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Leuciscus leuciscus

Other Word Forms of Dace

Noun

Singular:
dace
Plural:
daces

Origin of Dace

  • Middle English dace, darce from Old French dars from Late Latin darsus possibly of Celtic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French dars, nominative form of dart (“dace”). For a similar loss of R compare bass.

    From Wiktionary

Dace Sentence Examples

  • The first is on what are described as free risers which include dace, rudd and chub.

  • These include the giant stickleback, the speckled dace, the white sturgeon and the green sturgeon.

  • A small stickleback kept in an aquarium devoured, in five hours' time, 74 newly-hatched dace, which were about a quarter of an inch long.

  • How to catch dace, tips on Irish loughs or Caribbean bone fishing seemed to abound.

  • In America the name of dace is also applied to members of other genera of the family; the "horned dace" (Semnotilus atromaculatus) is a well-known variety.

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Words Starting With

DDADAC

Words Ending With

ECEACE

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