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white perch

white perch

1 6.6
A small silvery freshwater fish found in streams in eastern North America, often caught for food or sport
  • noun
  • /waɪt pɜrʧ/
  • US
translation icon : perca blanca
  • white perch and bass
  • white perch and striped
  • yellow perch and white perch

Examples

  • White perch.

    Lake Placid (1999)

  • Used to haul tubs of white perch, but they're gone.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • At present, the potential for competition between white perch and native species remains high (Schaeffer and Margraf 1986).

    Academic text (1994)

  • On warm summer days, anglers often catch a lot of white perch at the local lake.

  • The chef prepared a delicious meal using freshly caught white perch from the nearby river.

  • Fishing for white perch is a popular pastime, especially during the spawning season in spring.

Synonyms

Morone americana
vswhite perch
  • Specialized
9.9

A small silvery fish from eastern United States rivers called white perch that people eat and catch for sport

is the common everyday name for that same edible game fish

Surface Forms

white perch singular
white perches plural

Morphology

white + perch

The noun is a straightforward color + animal compound: 'white' (a color) + 'perch' (a fish), so the meaning — a perch that is white/silvery — is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern (color + noun species) is common cross-linguistically and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

White perch gets its name from the fish's look: it is pale and silvery, so white, and it looks like a small perch. So the name refers to 'a small silvery freshwater fish' often caught for food and sport.