percoid
Americanadjective
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belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
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resembling a perch.
adjective
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of, relating to, or belonging to the Percoidea, a suborder of spiny-finned teleost fishes including the perches, sea bass, red mullet, cichlids, etc
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of, relating to, or resembling a perch
noun
Etymology
Origin of percoid
Example Sentences
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This is a percoid, Serranus nigritus of Holbrook, and one of the very best table-fishes of these waters.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
Perch′-backed, shaped like a perch's back; Per′ciform, percoid; Per′cine, perciform; Per′coid, like the perch: pertaining to the perch family.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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