Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, especially Leuciscus leuciscus of Eurasia.
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The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales.
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(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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Any of various small, freshwater cyprinoid fishes (esp. genera Phoxinus and Rhinichthys)
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
dace
Plural:
daces
Origin of dace
Middle English dace, darcefrom Old French darsfrom Late Latin darsuspossibly 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.
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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.
However in catching 6 dace with a combined weight of 5lb 4oz I hope he excused me my excitement!
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.
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.