percidé

Definitions of percidé
  1. noun
    any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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    brochet
    any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
    bar, perche commune
    nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
    scombroïdé
    a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
    gobi dormeur
    tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
    scombroidé
    important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
    brochet, doré
    any of several North American species of small pike
    poisson prédateur
    any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
    thon
    any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
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    acanthoptérygien
    a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
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