percher

1. 1.

   a person situated on a perch

   Broaderperson
2. 2.

   a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists

   SynonymsInsessoresorder Insessoresperching bird

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofAves

Other forms of percher

plural

perchers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about percher

What does percher mean?

percher means "a person situated on a perch". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in percher?

percher has 2 syllables: per-cher. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for percher?

Close synonyms include Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is percher a common word?

percher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.