white perch

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   small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams

   Synonymssilver perchMorone americana

   Broaderserranid fish

   Part ofMorone

Questions about white perch

What does white perch mean?

white perch means "small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams".

What is another word for white perch?

Close synonyms include silver perch, Morone americana. 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 white perch a common word?

white perch 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.