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Percidae
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:
perch, ↑Perca, ↑genus Perca, ↑Stizostedion, ↑genus Stizostedion, ↑Percina, ↑genus Percina

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\\-səˌdē\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Perca, type genus + -idae
: 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.