The Common Perch (Perca fluviatilis), or an allied freshwater species.

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

The perch (fish); = bass, n.1 1. Cf. barse, n.

any of various freshwater perches and perch-like fishes; esp. the European perch, Perca fluviatilis.

A kind of freshwater fish, esp. the European perch, Perca fluviatilis. Perhaps English regional (north-western) in later use. Cf. bass, n.1

U.S. regional. Any of various fishes, esp. (in later use) the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (family Centrarchidae).

Name of a species of fish: the original form of the word subsequently corrupted to base, n.2, and bass, n.1

An English fish, ? the perch.

Chiefly Australian = redfin perch n. at compounds.