dace

Etymology

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

noun

  1. The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
    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, Part One, Chapter 3
  2. (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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