SILVER PERCH

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Meaning:

Small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams

Synonyms:

Morone americana; silver perch; white perch

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("silver perch" is a kind of...):

serranid; serranid fish (marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters)

Holonyms ("silver perch" is a member of...):

genus Morone; Morone (carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes)

Meaning:

Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico

Synonyms:

Bairdiella chrysoura; mademoiselle; silver perch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("silver perch" is a kind of...):

drum; drumfish (small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise)

Holonyms ("silver perch" is a member of...):

Bairdiella; genus Bairdiella (drumfish)