noun
active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches
• Syn: ↑family Percidae
• Hypernyms: ↑fish family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑order Percomorphi
• Member Meronyms:
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\\-səˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a family of vigorous active percoid fishes that is now usually restricted to freshwater forms of the northern hemisphere including the true perches, pike perches, and a few related forms (as the zingel) but that formerly also included the sand darters or was sometimes made nearly coextensive with Percoidea — see perca
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Percidae /pûrˈsi-dē/ plural noun
The perch family
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Main Entry: ↑perch
Useful english dictionary. 2012.