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from The Century Dictionary.
- A superfamily of acanthopterygian fishes proposed for the families Percidæ, Serranidæ, Hæmulonidæ, Sparidæ, Gerridæ, and related forms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as
perciformes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder
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