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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes;
[syn: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Percoid \Per"coid\ (p[~e]r"koid), a. [L. perca a perch + -oid: cf. F. perco["i]de.] (Zool.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percid[ae]. -- n. Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percid[ae]; a percoidean. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

percoid n 1: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes [syn: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean]