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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PERCIFORMES

Per `ci *for "mes, n. pl. Etym: [NL. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidæ ); the pondfishes (Centrarchidæ ); the sciænoids (Sciænidæ ); the sparoids (Sparidæ ); the serranoids (Serranidæ ), and some other related families.