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Merca

American  
[mer-kah] / ˈmɛr kɑ /

noun

  1. a city in S Somalia.


Merca British  
/ ˈmɛəkə /

noun

  1. a port in S Somalia on the Indian Ocean. Pop: 189 000 (2005 est)

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For this Madam Cesara thought she ought to be very grateful to me, une femme fort d�cid�e, se repliant sur elle-m�me, son individualit� exag�ratrice perca � travers ses vertus et ses vices et son sexe.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

Thus perch, a fish, from perca; but perch, a measure, from pertica, and likewise to perch.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

Perch harks back to the Latin perca, and the Romans had it from the Greeks, among whom it meant spotted.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

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