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