Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of acanthopterygian fishes, formerly used with wide and indefinite limits to cover many heterogeneous forms, variously separated by modern ichthyologists; now restricted to such species as the common yellow perches of Europe and North America, as Perca fluviatilis of the former and P. americana, lutea, or flavescens of the latter country, and made the type of the family Percidæ. See
perch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Percidae
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Talvez que assim houvesse menor perca de tempo e maior rentabilidade nos serviços e nas empresas; talvez, talvez, talvez …
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(Banyaklah Mak nanti dapat kain perca lebih nak buat selimut) Winter is coming, so corak kain pun suram2 sikit.
kieli Diary Entry kieli 2005
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The _burbot_, or _lotte_, which already exists in some of the streams tributary to the Trent, and which is a most admirable fish, might be diffused without much difficulty; and nothing could be more easy than to naturalize the _spiegil carpfen_ and _siluris_; and I see no reason why the _perca lucio perca_ and _zingil_ should not succeed in some of our clear lakes and ponds, which abound in coarse fish.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 Various
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Perch harks back to the Latin _perca_, and the Romans had it from the Greeks, among whom it meant spotted.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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Thus perch, a fish, from perca; but perch, a measure, from pertica, and likewise to perch.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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Não perca a cobertura completa do maior evento de Java do mundo, o
Sun Bloggers Daniel Campos 2009
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Então não perca tempo e coloque, pois você pode ganhar este lindo vestido.
Fashion World of SL 2009
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Se se interessa pelas comunicações unificadas, então não perca: Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 By Rui Maximo, Kurt De Ding, Vishwa Ranjan, Chris Mayo, Oscar Newkerk, and the Microsoft ...
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There are, however, various kinds of smaller fish, viz. eel (murjena anguilla); perch (perca fluviatilis); shiner {perca nobi - lisf); pout (silurus felis); trout (salmo trutta); sucker
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