An edible, spiny-finned freshwater fish, Perca fluviatilis (family Percidae), native to Europe, which has two distinctive dorsal fins, reddish lower…

A kind of fish like a perch, found in the Nile.

Any of various fishes with black tails. U.S. The cottonwick grunt, Haemulon melanurum (family Haemulidae), of the tropical West Atlantic. Obsolete…

any of several fishes of a greyish colour; esp. the white bass, Morone chrysops, of North America.

Applied to fishes resembling a salmon, but not belonging to the Salmonidæ. (a) In U.S., the squeteague, n.; also the pike-perch (see pike, n.3). (b)…

the southern kingfish, Menticirrhus americanus (cf. sense 2b).

A name of a fish of the perch family.