A small freshwater fish with silvery scales, related to carp and commonly found in streams and rivers.
From Old French 'dace,' possibly derived from a Latin root 'dacia.' The word has been used in English since medieval times to describe this common European fish.
The dace is so common in European streams that it became a baseline fish—when people wanted to describe something as ordinary or typical, 'as common as a dace' was a real expression, similar to how we might say 'a dime a dozen' today.
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