Meanings
plural silver perches
- Certain percoid fish:
- countableuncountableWhite perch (Morone americana, family Moronidae), of brackish waters of eastern North America.
- countableuncountablesilver croaker (Bairdiella chrysoura, family Sciaenidae), native to the east coast of the United States.
- countableuncountableSilver bream, black bream (Bidyanus bidyanus, family Terapontidae), endemic to Australia.
Synonyms: bidyan, bidyan grunter, silver bream, grunter, Murray bream, Murray perch, sooty grunter, tcheri
- countableuncountabletherapon (Leiopotherapon plumbeus, family Terapontidae), endemic to the Philippines.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSilver bream, black bream (Bidyanus bidyanus, family Terapontidae), endemic to Australia.
More synonyms by meaning
nounsmall silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
nounsmall silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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