perch
perch is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
- noun. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
- noun. A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
- noun. A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
- noun. In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
- noun. In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
- noun. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- intransitive verb. To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
- transitive verb. To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
- transitive verb. To occupy as a perch.
- noun. any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- noun. spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- noun. support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- noun. any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
- noun. an elevated place serving as a seat
- noun. a square rod of land
- noun. a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- verb. sit, as on a branch
"The birds perched high in the tree"
- verb. cause to perch or sit
"She perched her hat on her head"
- verb. to come to rest, settle
"Misfortune lighted upon him"
Synonyms
pole, rod, rest, roost, alight, light
Common word forms
perched, percher, perches, perching, perchable
Words from these letters
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