单词 | percid |
释义 | percidn.adj. Zoology. A. n. A fish of the family Percidae, which originally comprised the majority of percoid fishes but is now restricted to freshwater fishes typified by the darters and true perches, which have a spiny first dorsal fin and are widespread in the northern hemisphere. ΚΠ 1869 E. D. Cope Synopsis Cyprinidae of Pennsylvania 401 Three specimens of this Percid are in the Museum Academy Natural Sciences. 1925 Ecology 6 64 The centrarchids..and percids (perches and darters) seem to be especially excluded from such association [sc. with the brook trout]. 1958 Ecol. Monogr. 28 186/1 Early percids with a large air bladder first swam freely in the water. 1991 L. M. Page & B. M. Burr Field Guide Freshwater Fishes N. Amer. 273 All but 3 species of North American percids are darters. B. adj. Of or relating to the family Percidae. ΚΠ 1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 625 The genus Plioparchus Cope was established to receive two species of percid fishes, discovered by Dr. C. A. White. 1943 Amer. Midland Naturalist 29 229 The scale method was used to elucidate..the life histories of two species of small percid fishes. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes ix. 126/2 Pelagic larvae..also characterize lake and river species in freshwater (e.g., whitefishes.., percid pike-perches, and perches). DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Percidal, same as percoid. (Rare.) This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1869 |
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