单词 | percoid |
释义 | percoidadj.n. Zoology. A. adj. Originally: †belonging to or characteristic of the former family Percoideae (now Percidae) of fishes (see percid adj.) (obsolete). Later: belonging to or characteristic of the suborder Percoidei (the largest perciform suborder) or the superfamily Percoidea (the largest superfamily within this suborder). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [adjective] percoid1840 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [adjective] > resembling perch percoid1840 perciform1872 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 433/1 In the fifth division of Percoïd fishes the ventral fins are placed in advance of the pectorals. 1861 T. Gill Catal. Fishes Eastern Coast N. Amer. 7 There is indeed a very strong resemblance between the Chromoid genera..and the Percoid Sunfishes. 1935 Sci. Monthly Dec. 515/2 In the waters of Tanganyika..live..cichlid fishes belonging to a family which is rather closely related to the marine percoid fishes. 1994 J. S. Nelson Fishes of World (ed. 3) 330 A freshwater middle Eocene and early percoid fish from North America. B. n. A percoid fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > member of Welshman1709 percoid1846 perchling1852 1846 B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 2) Percoids are a tribe of acanthopterygian fishes, of which the perch is the type. 1944 Sci. Monthly Apr. 269/1 Africa's only giant freshwater fish is a percoid,..the Nile perch. 1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel vi. 87 There is as little evidence..for classification with other fossil or Recent percoids. Derivatives perˈcoidean adj. and n. rare ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Percoidea Percoidean, a. & n. 1912 Amer. Naturalist 46 161 Elassoma evergladei Jordan (20–33 mm.) [is] a minute percoidean of our southeastern swamps. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Percoideous a., same as percoid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1840 |
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