Dace
WordNet
noun
(1) Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From Old French dars, nominative form of dart ‘dace’. For a similar loss of R compare bass.
Noun
- The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales.
- 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p28
- 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.
- 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p28
- Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.