percoid

percoid

(ˈpɜːkɔɪd) or

percoidean

adj1. (Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Percoidea, a suborder of spiny-finned teleost fishes including the perches, sea bass, red mullet, cichlids, etc2. (Animals) of, relating to, or resembling a perchn (Animals) any fish belonging to the suborder Percoidea[C19: from Latin perca perch² + -oid]

per•coid

(ˈpɜr kɔɪd)

also per•coi•de•an

(pərˈkɔɪ di ən)

adj. belonging to the Percoidei, a suborder of spiny-finned fishes comprising the true perches and many related families. [1830–40; < French Percoïdes (pl.) (Cuvier)]

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percoid - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformespercoid fish, percoideanacanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible raysorder Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tunaperch - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformesperch - spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishessandfish - either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sandcusk-eel - elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishesbrotula - deep-sea fishespearlfish, pearl-fish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass bedsrobalo - a kind of percoid fishpike - any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemispherecentrarchid, sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseedbass - nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishesserranid, serranid fish - marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waterssurfperch, surf fish, surffish - small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North Americabigeye - red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scalescatalufa, Priacanthus arenatus - brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waterscardinalfish - small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical watersLopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, tilefish - yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep watersbluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix - bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waterscobia, Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish - large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waterscarangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidaedolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi - large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)blanquillo, tilefish - important marine food fishescichlid, cichlid fish - freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariumssnapper - any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal watersgrunt - medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caughtsparid, sparid fish - spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teethsea bream, bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidaesciaenid, sciaenid fish - widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce soundmullet - bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chingray mullet, grey mullet, mullet - freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwidesea chub - schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western AtlanticChaetodipterus faber, spadefish, angelfish - deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal watersbutterfly fish - small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwidedamselfish, demoiselle - small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefswrasse - chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly coloredparrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish - gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeththreadfin - mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike raysjawfish - small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishesstargazer - heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the headsand stargazer - small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await preyblennioid, blennioid fish - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins