white perch

white perch
noun
small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
Hypernyms: ↑serranid fish, ↑serranid
Member Holonyms: ↑Morone, ↑genus Morone

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noun
1. : a small anadromous sea bass (Morone americana) that is dark green above and silvery below, is found along the coast and in coastal streams of the eastern U.S., and is closely related to the yellow bass
3. : a pile perch or related fish of California

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1. a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
3. See silver perch (def. 2).
[1765-75, Amer.]

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white perch,
1. a small, silvery food fish of the eastern United States, found in both fresh and marine waters; silver perch.
2. = white crappie. (Cf.white crappie)

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