Percoid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to the Percoidea, a large suborder of spiny-finned fishes that includes the perches, sunfishes, groupers, and grunts.
  • n. A fish belonging to the suborder Percoidea.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or belonging to Percoidea, a taxonomic superfamily in the order Perciformes.
  • n. Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidæ.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Perch-like; perciform; of or pertaining to the Percoïdes or Percidæ, in any sense. A1so percoideous.
  • n. A perch; any member of the Percoides or Percidæ.
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  • n. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    acanthopterygian    spiny-finned fish   
    Hyponym
    goby    demoiselle    robalo    sea chub    sleeper goby    pomatomus saltatrix    butterfish    sea bream    cutlassfish    pearlfish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    percoidean   
     
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