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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form or structure of a perch; percoid; of or pertaining to the Perciformes.
  • noun A percoid fish; a member of the Perciformes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Perciformes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to any of very many fish, of the order Perciformes, that have fin spines, a swim bladder without a duct, usually ctenoid scales, and 17 or fewer caudal fin rays.
  • noun Such a fish

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