perch : Idioms & Phrases

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Black perch

  • . (a) The black bass . (b) The flasher . (c) The sea bass.
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Blue perch

  • the cunner.
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Climbing perch

  • noun a small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land
    A. testudineus; Anabas testudineus.
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  • . (Zoöl.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
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european perch

  • noun a perch native to Europe
    Perca fluviatilis.
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giant perch

  • noun a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats
    Lates calcarifer; giant seaperch; Asian seabass; barramundi; white seabass.
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Gray perch

  • the fresh-water drum.
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Log perch

  • (Zoöl.), an ethiostomoid fish, or darter (Percina caprodes); called also hogfish and rockfish.
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ocean perch

  • noun North Atlantic rockfish
    redfish; rosefish.
  • noun large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe
    Sebastodes marinus; rosefish.
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Perch pest

  • a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of the perch.
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perching bird

  • noun a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
    percher; Insessores; order Insessores.
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Pike perch

  • noun any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family
    pike perch.
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  • (Zoöl.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
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pike-perch

  • noun any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family
    pike perch.
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Pirate perch

  • (Zoöl.), a fresh-water percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.
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rainbow perch

  • noun Pacific coast fish
    rainbow seaperch; Hipsurus caryi.
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Red perch

  • the rosefish.
  • (Zoöl.), the rosefish.
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Red-bellied perch

  • the long-eared pondfish.
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sea perch

Sea" perch`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) The European bass (Roccus, ∨ Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace. (b) The cunner. (c) The sea bass. (d) The name is applied also to other species of fishes.
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Silver perch

  • noun small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
    mademoiselle; Bairdiella chrysoura.
  • noun small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
    Morone americana; silver perch.
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  • the yellowtail.
  • (Zoöl.), the mademoiselle, 2.
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Stone, ∨ Striped, perch

  • the pope.
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Trout perch

  • (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water American fish (Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth.
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White perch

  • noun small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
    Morone americana; silver perch.
WordNet
  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A North American fresh-water bass (Morone Americana) valued as a food fish. (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum. (c) Any California surf fish.
  • the Roccus, ∨ Morone, Americanus, a small silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.
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Yellow perch

  • noun North American perch
    Perca flavescens.
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  • (Zoöl.), the common American perch. See Perch.
Webster 1913