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单词 percoid
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Definition of percoid in English:

percoid

noun ˈpəːkɔɪdˈpərkoid
Zoology
  • A fish of a large group that includes the perches, basses, jacks, snappers, grunts, sea breams, and drums.

    Superfamily Percoidea: many families

adjective ˈpəːkɔɪdˈpərkoid
Zoology
  • Relating to or denoting the percoids.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • White perch (Morone americana Gmelin) is a percoid fish found in many estuarine and freshwater systems along the east coast of North America, from the state of South Carolina to the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
    • These and other phylogenetic hypotheses will be tested in future studies with an expanded coverage of percoid families.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Percoïdes (plural), from Latin perca 'perch'.

 
 

Definition of percoid in US English:

percoid

nounˈpərkoid
Zoology
  • A fish of a large group that includes the perches, basses, jacks, snappers, grunts, sea breams, and drums.

    Superfamily Percoidea: many families

adjectiveˈpərkoid
Zoology
  • Relating to the percoid group of fish.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These and other phylogenetic hypotheses will be tested in future studies with an expanded coverage of percoid families.
    • White perch (Morone americana Gmelin) is a percoid fish found in many estuarine and freshwater systems along the east coast of North America, from the state of South Carolina to the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Percoïdes (plural), from Latin perca ‘perch’.

 
 
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