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perches

Variant of perch

noun pl. perch or perches

any of a family (Percidae) of small, spiny-finned, freshwater, percoid food fishes of Europe and America; esp., a yellowish species (Perca flavescens) of North America
any of various other spiny-finned bony fishes, as the white perch and the surfperches

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